Cooperation partners
Samantha Vanderslott leads the Vaccines and Society Unit (VAS), hosted by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford. She is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford working on topics at the intersection of health and society. In the context of our collaboration, we will be comparing insights into the attitudes of parents concerning childhood vaccinations.
Katie Attwell is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia and leads the interdisciplinary West Australian project “Coronavax: Preparing Community and Government”. Attwell’s research focuses on community, systems and behavioural research in the area of vaccination uptake. VALUE VACC and Attwell have been collaborating in the context of their joint research on vaccine mandates.
Christian Haddad is a University Assistant (post-doc) at the Department for Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Haddad’s research interests connect conceptual and empirical concerns for global health, biopolitics of security and pharmaceutical innovation. Our collaboration with Haddad consists of research on vaccine innovation as well as regulatory aspects of research and development.
Bettina Zimmermann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). As well as at the Institute for Bio- and Medical Ethics (IBMB) at the University of Basel (Switzerland). We have collaborated on questions of COVID19 vaccine attitudes and decisions and have conducted a media content analysis of COVID19 coverage in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. With her interdisciplinary profile, Bettina makes for a fantastic collaborator for VALUE VACC.