The Wellcome Global Monitor is the world’s largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.
Doctors and nurses are most trusted for health advice.
What we know about science – and how we think it benefits society.
More than three-quarters of the world’s population agree that vaccines are safe and effective.
Significant gap in what men and women say they know about science.
Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome"Wellcome Global Monitor presents an unprecedented view of the relationship between science and society worldwide. No matter how great your idea, how exciting your new treatment, or how robust your science, it must be accepted by the people who stand to benefit from it. Vaccines, for example, are one of our most powerful public health tools, and we need people to have confidence in them if they are to be most effective."
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