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Vanishing cycles and injectivity of the specialisation map

Consider a proper algebraic map between complex varieties $f : X \to D$ ($D$ is the unit disk), which is a submersion over $D^*$. I would like to know if they are any condition on $f$ such that the specialisation map $H^*(X_0) \to H^*(X)$ is injective ?