# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heidi-j-larson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:30:49.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heidi-j-larson"
name: "Heidi J. Larson"
slug: "heidi-j-larson"
description: "Heidi J. Larson, Lady Piot is an American anthropologist and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project. Larson headed Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF and she is the author of Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021."
tagline: "Anthropologist and immunisation expert"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heidi_Larson_for_World_Economic_Forum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1957-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.974229333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ProfHeidiLarson"
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    title: "ハイジ・J・ラーソン"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump