Assessing Community and Social Media Influence to Increase Influenza Vaccine Uptake among Youth in Soweto, South Africa (The Bambisana Study): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pretest-Posttest Intervention Study

Janan Dietrich   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Catherine Hill   ³ , BA (Hons) ;   Gugulethu Tshabalala   ^{1, 4} , BSW ;   Tshepiso Msibi   ³ , BA (Hons) ;   Stefanie Vermaak   ^{1, 4} , MScPH ;   Mulalo Mashamba   ³ , MSocSc ;   Nellie Myburgh   ^{3, 5} , PhD ;   Sarah Malycha   ⁶ , BA (Hons) ;   Isabella Goldstein   ⁶ , BA (Hons) ;   Elliot Grainger   ⁶ , MA ;   Prima Alam   ⁶ , PhD ;   Kimberley Gutu   ³ , MBBCh ;   Kennedy Otwombe   ^{4, 7} , PhD ;   Heidi J. Larson   ^{6, 8} , PhD ;   Ziyaad Dangor   ³ , PhD

¹ African Social Sciences Unit of Research and Evaluation (ASSURE), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

² Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

³ South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁴ Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁵ Department of Social Science, Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, South Africa

⁶ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, Vaccine Confidence Project, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

⁷ School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁸ Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States