About the event
Join us for a special World Health Organisation (WHO) World Immunisation Week Research Conversation.
What is World Immunisation Week?
World Immunization Week is a global campaign that aims to promote the importance of vaccines in protecting people of all ages from diseases. The WHO collaborates with countries to raise awareness and provide support for effective immunization programs. The goal is to increase protection against vaccine-preventable diseases for individuals and communities worldwide.
What is a Research conversation?
Research Conversations are hosted by People in Health West of England and are informal sessions which are designed to give researchers and public contributors a chance to interact. Public contributors are encouraged to ask questions, learn about, and get involved in projects in their area.
Research conversations will usually take place on Tuesdays or Fridays between 10 and 11 am, or 5 and 6 pm.
We will be joined by researchers from across the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science who will be talking about their work on the topic of immunisations.
Our speakers
Dr. Rajeka Lazarus – Attitudes to vaccine co-administration in adults
Rajeka Lazarus is a vaccine researcher and infection doctor. Her work focuses on how we offer vaccines to adults to encourage uptake, and thereby reduce death and hospital admissions caused by infections.
The number of vaccines that we offer to older adults has increased from one to five over the past 25 years. Most of these vaccines are still offered one at a time. Increasing the number of vaccines we can offer in one appointment could make it easier for people to receive their vaccines, and fewer GP appointments. In this talk we will discuss the potential benefits, and public and healthcare worker attitudes to vaccine co-administration, and the research questions that need to be answered.
Dr. Emma Anderson – Vaccine conversations – how can health workers do better?
Dr Emma Anderson is a Health Psychologist and Research Fellow based at the University of Bristol.
Emma will describe her research exploring uptake of vaccinations in pregnancy, and why conversations with health professionals matter so much. She teaches a conversation framework to help health workers talk more effectively and respectfully with people who have concerns about vaccines.
Emma will invite discussion about how you want to be spoken with when it comes to vaccines.
Dr. Sarah Denford – Understanding opportunistic vaccination uptake amongst people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities: A qualitative interview study
Sarah Denford is a Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science at the University of Bristol. She is a behavioural scientist with expertise in health psychology, intervention development and qualitative research methods and is particularly interested in how we develop public health interventions with people from underrepresented communities.
Get involved
Get in touch with Carmel McGrath if you have any questions or would like her to send you reminders about upcoming research conversations or check our events page for more sessions.
Joining instructions
The research conversation will start at 5 pm.
Book this event
- Contact: Dr Carmel McGrath
- Web: Join online session on Zoom