Emilie Karafillakis is the lead for European Research at the Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP), with appointments at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as well as at the University of Antwerp (European office of the VCP).
She has around 10 years of experience as a social scientist, working in international research and teaching in academia. In her position at the VCP, Emilie leads and contributes to social science, qualitative research, systematic literature reviews and digital analyses to explore confidence in vaccination among parents, adolescents and healthcare professionals and assess effective communication and community engagement strategies. Her research has focused on confidence in HPV vaccination, maternal vaccines as well as influenza and COVID-19 vaccines.
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Emilie's research interests include social and behavioural sciences around vaccination, looking at public and health professional confidence in vaccination and influencing factors such as individual, social and emotional determinants of health. She is specialised in qualitative research and systematic literature reviews.