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Samantha Vanderslott
Associate Professor
Samantha Vanderslott leads the Vaccines and Society Unit (VAS), hosted by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford. She is a health sociologist and Associate Professor working on topics at the intersection of health and society.
Samantha has over 30 peer-reviewed publications (including in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Lancet Public Health, BMJ Global health, and Sociology of Health and Illness). She has given policy advice to various governments and international bodies, and frequently appears on media discussing public health issues. Her research currently focuses on public attitudes and decisions on vaccination, particularly in relation to pro-vaccination behaviours and vaccine acceptance. Prior, she worked on the study of neglect in attention on public health issues, summarised in her book Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect, for which she conducted field work in Brazil and China.
She primarily draws on Science and Technology Studies, Medical Anthropology, Public Policy, and Political Economy in her work. Samantha holds a PhD from UCL (University College London) and has held visiting positions at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Brocher Foundation in Geneva.
Recent publications
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Behavioural interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media.
Journal article
Ruggeri K. et al, (2024), BMJ, 384
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The Oxford Needle Experience (ONE) scale: a UK-based and US-based online mixed-methods psychometric development and validation study of an instrument to assess needle fear, attitudes and expectations in the general public.
Journal article
Kantor J. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13
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The collective voice of early phase COVID-19 vaccine trial participants: Insights for improving confidence in novel vaccines.
Journal article
Thomas TM. et al, (2023), Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 19, 2203023 - 2203023
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Online on the frontline: A longitudinal social media analysis of UK healthcare workers' attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines using the 5C framework.
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Déom N. et al, (2023), Soc Sci Med, 339
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Motivations for paediatric vaccine trial participation.
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Hillson K. et al, (2023), Trials, 24