Contact information
samantha.vanderslott@ndm.ox.ac.uk
https://vaccinesandsociety.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8685-7758
she/her
Research groups
Samantha Vanderslott
Career Development Fellow
- Associate Professor
Researching vaccination and societies during pandemics.
Samantha Vanderslott is a PSI Career Development Fellow. Her research has concentrated on understanding key themes determining vaccine support and opposition, particularly highlighting advocacy/activism and addressing questions posed by public policy. During her fellowship, she will develop a research programme exploring vaccination and societies during pandemics.
Recent publications
Parental motivations, facilitators, and barriers to participating in a pediatric vaccine trial in Kathmandu, Nepal: A qualitative study
Journal article
Firth C. et al, (2026), Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 22
Developing a global framework to assess a country's readiness and resilience to introduce a new vaccine or improve uptake of an underutilized vaccine.
Journal article
Monk V. et al, (2026), Expert review of vaccines, 25
What is unhealthy about public health? Vaccination, evidence and the politics of uncertainty
Journal article
Mezza M. and Vanderslott S., (2026), Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthy volunteer motivations: a mixed-methods study of participants in plague vaccine trials in the UK and Uganda.
Journal article
Stuart AS. et al, (2026), BMC public health
En-risk to de-risk: An iterative human factors framework for scale development in emerging technologies.
Journal article
Kantor J. et al, (2026), JAAD international, 24, 342 - 345