Cissé Bakary Discipline : Epidemiology/Biostatistics Email :cybar95@gmail.com Organisation: SESSTIM Your work (vaccine-related): My research focuses on public health, with a particular interest in prevention through vaccination. I am therefore interested in health literacy, vaccination awareness, and vaccine hesitancy.My work specifically examines how health literacy influences vaccination behaviors in various sociocultural contexts. By developing and validating…
Philipp Schmid Discipline : Health Communication Email : philipp.schmid@ru.nl Organisation: Radboud Universiteit Your work (vaccine-related): I am an assistant professor of health communication with a specific focus on misinformation research. I aim to analyse the impact of messages of science denialism on individuals’ health decision-making and to design interventions to reduce their persuasive influence. Science…
Monika Heller Discipline : health psychology, behavioural medicine Email : monika.heller@ehesp.fr Organisation: EHESP Your work : nocebo effect in vaccines; intervention design to improve vaccination uptake in HCP
Lison Merville-Boudjema Discipline : Sociology Email : lison.merville@gmail.com Organisation: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Lyon 1 Your work (vaccine-related): Lison Merville-Boudjema holds a PhD in sociology (URMIS, 2023). Her thesis focuses on the processes of othering experienced by people identified as ‘migrant Roma’ in France in relation to the categorisation of precarious housing (squats, shanty towns…
Ugo Laquièze Discipline : Political Sociology Email : ugo_laquieze@unil.ch Organisme : University of Lausanne Your work (vaccine-related): As part of the sociology of social movements, my research focuses on the biographical consequences of opposition to the health measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 24 November 2025 the workshop “Vaccines & Vaccinations: A Future Agenda for Social Sciences & Policy” will bring together an international group of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. The workshop will explore the political, economic, ethical, and social dimensions of vaccine development and uptake, as well as ways in which the social sciences might more…
Judith LEBLANC Subject: Nursing Mail : judith.leblanc@aphp.fr Organisme : Sorbonne Université / AP-HP Work : Projects currently under development
Fasce, A., Mustață, M., Deliu, A. et al. A field test of empathetic refutational and motivational interviewing to address vaccine hesitancy among patients. npj Vaccines 10, 142 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-025-01197-8 Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is among the most concerning public health issues due to declining immunization rates worldwide. We report a mixed-methods field test of two conversational techniques that allow for…