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…
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 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.
François Buton Political science – CNRS François Buton’s work focuses on doctors and the media during the pandemic.
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…
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…
P Peretti-Watel, P Verger, JK Ward, Nature Medicine 30 (4), 923-924 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic acceler-ated the development of mRNA vaccines and provided proof of concept for this new approach to protect humans against infectious diseases, as well as other diseases such as cancer. However, the use of mRNA technology depends on the public’s attitude…
G Khoury, JK Ward, J Mancini, A Gagneux-Brunon, LB Luong Nguyen, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10, e45837 Abstract Background:Health literacy involves individuals’ knowledge, personal skills, and confidence to take action to evaluate and appraise health-related information and improve their health or that of their community. Objective:This study aimed to analyze the association between health…
JK Ward, S Cortaredona, H Touzet, F Gauna, P Peretti-Watel, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 11373758 Abstract Context: The role of political identities in determining attitudes to vaccines has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. Explanations have tended to focus on the influence of party representatives on their sympathizers (partisan…
JK Ward, P Peretti-Watel, E Dubé, P Verger, K Attwell, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 20 (1), 2367268 Abstract The pandemic dramatically accelerated research on vaccine attitudes and uptake, a field which mobilizes researchers from the social sciences and humanities as well as biomedical and public health disciplines. The field has the potential to contribute much…