Terra Manca

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Terra Manca is a research associate at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Nursing. She earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Alberta investigating how healthcare providers use narrative to interpret and communicate information about vaccines. She completed her postdoctoral research at Dalhousie University investigating how pharmaceutical regulation, health communications, and policy about vaccination in pregnancy are all (dis)organized around and mutually productive of social inequities. Her ongoing research into vaccination focuses on how understandings of vaccination, access to vaccines, and responsibility to get vaccinated are shaped by social inequities. That research contributes to improving communications with the goal of optimizing vaccine uptake and developing more equitable public health policy.