Dr. Pauline Paterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. Dr. Paterson is the Co-Programme Director of the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health and the Trust in Climate Science Lead at the Confidence Project, LSHTM.
Dr. Paterson is a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Vaccines and Immunisation, and has an honorary academic contract with UK Health Security Agency.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Vaccine Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Teaching
Dr. Paterson is Co-Programme Director of the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health. Previously, Dr. Paterson was co-Module Organiser for the MSc module 'Applied Communicable Disease Control' and seminar leader for the module 'Issues in Public Health' (2017-2022). Dr. Paterson has given lectures and seminars at LSHTM, Imperial College London, University College London, the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, the Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health in Germany, and the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea.
Dr. Paterson is currently supervising a PhD student who is researching perceptions and awareness of population health and climate actions among citizens and policymakers in low-income settings, and a DrPH student who is exploring current practices and global challenges of Diphtheria antitoxin production and procurement. Dr. Paterson has previously supervised a PhD student on the LSHTM/Nagasaki University Joint programme, who explored rabies prevention, vaccine uptake and vaccine attitudes in the Philippines, a PhD student who researched social and cognitive factors underlying vaccine uptake and refusal in pregnant women, and a PhD student who explored factors influencing vaccination uptake among ethnic minorities during pregnancy in England.
Dr. Paterson also supervises MSc research projects, and tutors MSc students, from the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health.
Dr. Paterson is currently supervising a PhD student who is researching perceptions and awareness of population health and climate actions among citizens and policymakers in low-income settings, and a DrPH student who is exploring current practices and global challenges of Diphtheria antitoxin production and procurement. Dr. Paterson has previously supervised a PhD student on the LSHTM/Nagasaki University Joint programme, who explored rabies prevention, vaccine uptake and vaccine attitudes in the Philippines, a PhD student who researched social and cognitive factors underlying vaccine uptake and refusal in pregnant women, and a PhD student who explored factors influencing vaccination uptake among ethnic minorities during pregnancy in England.
Dr. Paterson also supervises MSc research projects, and tutors MSc students, from the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health.
Research
Dr. Paterson has been researching public perceptions around climate change and climate action globally, more recently exploring public perceptions and communication of the co-benefits of climate action in the UK.
Dr. Paterson has also been researching issues of public confidence in immunisations since 2010. Specific research areas include COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK, views and experiences of vaccinating during pregnancy globally, misinformation narratives online, and public trust in vaccination.
Dr. Paterson has also been researching issues of public confidence in immunisations since 2010. Specific research areas include COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK, views and experiences of vaccinating during pregnancy globally, misinformation narratives online, and public trust in vaccination.
Research Area
Climate change
Planetary health
Decision analysis
Vaccine confidence
Sociology
Selected Publications
Navigating a rapidly changing information and communication landscape amidst “infodemics”
2023
Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond
Drivers of global media attention and representations for antimicrobial resistance risk: an analysis of online English and Chinese news media data, 2015-2018.
2021
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL
COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK: Survey dataset
2021
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
