Foregrounding Intersectionality in Public Health: A Commentary on Giubilini, Gur-Arye and Jamrozik

Giubilini, Gur-Arie and Jamrozik’s “Expertise, Disagreement, and Trust in Vaccine Science and Policy” explores how “failures of transparency in the acknowledgement of scientific uncertainty, absence of knowledge, and expert disagreement about scientific knowledge” undermine expert status and authority and thereby damage vaccination programs. To avoid these problems, the authors argue that public health experts need to

1. publicly acknowledge relevant uncertainties about knowledge claims; and

2. publicly acknowledge that disagreements between experts can exist due to either epistemic uncertainties or differences in value judgements.