Tamara Giles-Vernick currently conducts research at the interstices of medical anthropology and ethnohistory (historical research using anthropological tools), investigating infectious disease transmission and global health interventions in Africa. She leads multidisciplinary research examining the changing nature and contexts of human contact with great apes and monkeys in equatorial Africa and the health consequences of that contact; she also conducts anthropological research on hepatitis B and vaccination, the historical emergence of HIV in central Africa; malnutrition; infantile diarrhea in the Central African Republic; an historical epidemiology of malaria in west Africa; hepatitis C transmission in hospital and dental settings in Egypt; a comparative history of pandemic influenza; a history of global health in Africa; and the history of epidemiological surveillance.
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Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2013.
Ph.D., African History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1996.
Oxford Forestry Institute, University of Oxford, 1992
M.A., African History, with training in Anthropology, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Family History.
Bachelors of Arts, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1985
The London School of Economics, London, England, 1983‑84
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2023Louis Pasteur, COVID-19, and the social challenges of epidemics., Lancet 2023 Dec; 400(10369): 2166-2168.
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2022Conditionality of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in European countries, Leonardo W. Heyerdahl, Muriel Vray, Benedetta Lana, Nastassia Tvardik, Nina Gobat, Marta Wanat, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Sibyl Anthierens, Herman Goossens, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Conditionality of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in European countries, Vaccine, 2022,.
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2022Doubt at the core: Unspoken vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers, Heyerdahl, Leonardo W., et al. "Doubt at the core: Unspoken vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers." The Lancet Regional Health–Europe 12 (2022)..
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2022Rethinking the Infodemic: Social Media and Offline Action in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Heyerdahl LW, Lana B, Giles-Vernick T. Rethinking the Infodemic: Social Media and Offline Action in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak. 2022:73-82..
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2021The Impact of the Online COVID-19 Infodemic on French Red Cross Actors’ Field Engagement and Protective Behaviors: Mixed Methods Study, Heyerdahl LW, Lana B, Giles-Vernick T. The Impact of the Online COVID-19 Infodemic on French Red Cross Actors’ Field Engagement and Protective Behaviors: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR infodemiology. 2021 Oct 6;1(1):e27472..
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2021Community engagement and vulnerability in infectious diseases: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of the literature., Soc Sci Med 2021 09; 284(): 114246.
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2021Integrating lay knowledge and practice into snakebite prevention and care in central Africa, a hotspot for envenomation., Toxicon X 2021 Sep; 11(): 100077.
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2021Factors Associated with Stunted Growth in Children Under Five Years in Antananarivo, Madagascar and Bangui, Central African Republic., Matern Child Health J 2021 Aug; (): .
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2021A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors., Nat Hum Behav 2021 07; 5(7): 834-846.
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2021Impact of Introducing Hepatitis B Birth Dose Vaccines into the Infant Immunization Program in Burkina Faso: Study Protocol for a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial (NéoVac Study)., Vaccines (Basel) 2021 Jun; 9(6): .
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