Tima Diabate

Tima Diabate Sociology – Université Phélix Houphouet Boigny d’Abidjan Cocody (Ivory Coast) Tima Diabate is working on parents’ attitudes and behaviour towards vaccinating children (0-23 months) in the Grand-Bassam health district (Ivory Coast).

Laura Mamo

Laura Mamo Sociology – San Francisco State Univeristy Laura Mamo have written extensively on the HPV vaccine and begin to do work on vaccination equity, sociological understanding of vaccines as technologies, and the ways gender, sexuality and other issues of positionalities as well as social forces, and biases shape vaccination understandings, research, and promotion.

Shiori Nosaka

Shiori Nosaka History – EHESS-CERMES3 Shiori Nosaka is a historian of medicine and health. In her thesis, defended in 2024 at the EHESS, she studied the processes involved in adapting Japanese health policies against cholera and plague during the development of bacteriological expertise, in the context of the expansion of colonial empires (1880-1930). Her work…

Chloé Michoud

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chloe-Michoud https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=1184589&LanCode=37 Chloé Michoud Psychology – Université de Lausanne, Suisse I’m doing a PhD in health psychology looking at vaccine hesitancy. My research aims to understand parents’ vaccine hesitancy for their children and how this fits in with broader conceptions of health. Adopting a socio-constructivist approach and qualitative methodology, I am focusing on parents’ concrete…

Alec Cali

Alec Cali Sociology, Political Science – University of Amsterdam I am a postdoctoral researcher exploring how institutional distrust, socio-economic and cultural contexts, and perceptions of political representation influence vaccine distrust. This work expands on my thesis work, which found how health system crises in the United States, can influence vaccine distrust.

Camille Casale

Camille Casale Sociology – ORS PACA I’m currently working as a study leader at ORS PACA, under the supervision of Dr Pierre Verger, to carry out a diagnostic study of the situation in France with regard to vaccine hesitancy and to draw up a roadmap for intervention research in France, with a view to strengthening…

Publication: Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council 

É Schultz, JK Ward, L Atlani-Duault, Science and public policy 51 (2), 236-246 Abstract During the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have resorted to scientific advisory bodies to aid in public health decision-making. What then has been the public’s perception of those new structures of scientific advice? In this article, we draw on a survey conducted…