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Leonardo Heyerdahl is a social scientist focused on epidemics research.
At Institut Pasteur and in collaboration with the Red Cross and the European RECOVER project, Leonardo is developing and implementing hybrid methods spanning from computational social science to ethnographic fieldwork to characterize, measure the impact, and act upon infodemics during the COVID-19 pandemic in several European countries.

Since 2010 he has lead on-field operational research to support Ministries of Health during Ebola and cholera epidemics in Côte D’Ivoire, Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

Leonardo holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France. He also holds an Msc in Sociology from Université de Caen Basse Normandie, France, and a Master in Humanitarian project management from the Université Aix-Marseille I, France.

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Ongoing
2 Members

Situated TICKborne encephalitis preparedness and prevention Education Measures for Europe (STICKEM)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

This study examines the comparative production, translation, and public interpretation of scientific knowledge concerning Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), which poses a genuine health risk in multiple European countries. We will use anthropological and entomological investigation […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

Co-developing preparedness and risk communication: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever knowledge, politics, experience in European borderlands (TICKRISK)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

The TICKRISK study examines the comparative production, translation, and public interpretation of scientific knowledge concerning a hemorrhagic fever posing an imminent risk along Europe’s borderlands – Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFv). The remit […]
Project
Ongoing
12 Members

PvSTATEM: Serological testing & treatment of vivax malaria

Michael White (PI)

Malaria elimination requires elimination of all malaria species. Although there has been tremendous progress in the development of new interventions for P. falciparum malaria, the goal of malaria elimination cannot be considered achievable unless […]
Project
Completed
5 Members

Rapid European COVID-19 Emergency Response research (RECOVER project)

Rapid European COVID-19 Emergency Response research (RECOVER project) (PI)

RECOVER is one of the 18 projects that the European Union has founded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to obtain crucial unknown information about the disease through clinical Research to help […]
Project
Completed
3 Members

Pro-actively addressing the challenges for an effective uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in Belgium: a transdisciplinary approach (Transvaxx project)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

The Transvaxx project aims to co-create intervention strategies with community and public health stakeholders that proactively mitigate vaccine hesitancy and maximize uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in Belgium. Mixed methods will be used, combining (i) […]
Project
Completed
2 Members

Vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Understanding the spread and use of (mis)information among health workers in Guinea and Ghana (Frontline project)

Léonard Heyerdahl (PI)

Frontline health workers, who have a fundamental and influential role in Covid-19 vaccination efforts, are critical to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as it relates to the evolving information environment of Covid-19. Given this context, this […]
Project
Ongoing
4 Members

Optimizing community antibiotic use and infection control with behavioural interventions in rural Burkina Faso and Democratic Republic of Congo (CABU-EICO project)

Optimizing community antibiotic use and infection control with behavioural interventions in rural Burkina Faso and Democratic Republic of Congo (CABU-EICO project) (PI)

Emergence of antibiotic resistance (AMR) is a serious concern for Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Unregulated use of antibiotics, a major AMR driver, is highly prevalent in LMICs, with medicine stores as key […]
Project
Completed
4 Members

Cultivating Online Safe Spaces: Addressing unspoken hesitancy to build vaccine confidence in healthcare workers in Belgium (OSS project)

Léonard Heyerdahl (PI)

Healthcare workers (HCW) are both priority groups for vaccinations and among the most influential in layperson’s vaccine decisions. Yet considerable vaccine hesitancy has been reported among HCW internationally, including in Belgium. During previous research […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

Red Cross health workers and the continuity of care in the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods operational approach

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

Voluntary organizations provide essential support to vulnerable populations and front-line health responders to the COVID-19 pandemic. The French Red Cross (FRC) is prominent among organizations offering health and support services in the current crisis. […]
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Not started
3 Members

Anthropological Study for the Programmatic Response to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Central African Republic

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

Funded by UNICEF Central African Republic, this investigation consists of a descriptive and comparative anthropological research on social, political, economic and health relations, formal and informal structures and practices in areas at risk of […]

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