COVID-19 has highlighted the need to understand people's vaccination choices. This page will highlight ongoing research I am conducting on how behavioural science can be used to improve vaccination coverage.
Social Care Staff and Influenza Vaccination: Social care staff are in regular contact with vulnerable members of society. Despite this, one PHE survey found that at best 20% of front line staff are vaccinated for flu in care homes. The data on flu vaccine uptake is very poor for social care staff. I am thus conducting a survey to understand the scale of the problem and what kind of behavioural economics interventions may help alleviate it. [Partners: Norfolk and Suffolk Care Support Ltd.; PHE; NHS England and NHS Improvement]. Survey link: https://bit.ly/30cIc9S. UEA news item: here.
Vaccination Appointment Systems: Making an appointment to be vaccinated is an effort. Even if you have the best of intentions, when life takes over you fail to schedule an appointment and do not get vaccinated. We are designing a novel flu vaccination appointment system that can help with this. [Partners: A large pharmacy chain; PHE; NHS England and NHS Improvement].
Vaccination Invitation SMSs: We explore whether behavioural science can help improve the effectiveness of SMS sent inviting patients to vaccination. [Partners: A large pharmacy chain: PHE; NHS England and NHS Improvement].