Books

Vanderslott, S. (2025). Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccination through Activism, Petitions, and Trials. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. doi.org/10.3726/b18362

Vanderslott, S. (2021) Attention and Responsibility in Global Health: The Currency of Neglect (1st Edition). London, UK: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780429355448

Journal articles (published)

2025

  • Norton, A., Vanderslott, S., & Horby, P. (2025). WHO pandemic agreement. BMJ, Vol 390. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1742.
  • Chen, T., Hertog, E., Mahdi, A., & Vanderslott, S. (2025). A systematic review on patient and public attitudes toward health monitoring technologies across countries. npj Digital Medicine, 8(1), 433. doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01762-4.
  • Martin, S., Janse Van Rensburg, M., Le, H. T., Firth, C., Chandrasekar, A., Clark, S. E., Vanderslott, S. & Vera San Juan, N. (2025). LISTEN: lived experiences of Long COVID: a social media analysis of mental health and supplement use. Frontiers in Big Data, 8, 1539724. doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2025.1539724.
  • Kantor, J., Carlisle, R. C., Vanderslott, S., Pollard, A. J., & Morrison, M. (2025). Development and validation of the Oxford Benchmark Scale for Rating Vaccine Technologies (OBSRVT), a scale for assessing public attitudes to next-generation vaccine delivery technologies. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), 2469994. doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2025.2469994.
  • Firth, C, Emary K, Stuart A, Browne R., Williamson M., Francis E, Vanderslott S, and Hodgson, S. H. (2025). Acceptability of the gonorrhoea human challenge model to accelerate vaccine development in UK men. Vaccine 54: 127013. doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127013.
  • Vanderslott, S. (2025). Confronting the shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination will help us in future pandemics. BMJ, 388. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r590.
  • Kraemer, M.U.G., Tsui, J.LH., Chang, S.Y. Lytras, S., Khurana, M. P., Vanderslott, S. et al. Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics. Nature 638, 623–635 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08564-w.
  • Taillandier, A., Stephens, N., & Vanderslott, S. (2025). Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value. Economy and Society, 54(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2439715

2024

  • Knights, F., Carter, J., Deal, A., Crawshaw, A., Bouaddi, O., Sanchez-Clemente, N., Seedat, F., Vanderslott, S., Eagan, R., Holt, D., Ciftci, Y., Orcutt, M., Seale, H., Severoni, S. & Hargreaves, S. (2024). Strengthening life-course immunisation in migrant populations: access, equity, and inclusion. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 41. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762%2823%2900225-9/fulltext 
  • Vanderslott, S. (2024). ‘Worm Wars’: The Unravelling of the Randomised Control Trial Success Story. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 10(1–2), 235-261. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1469 
  • Patrick-Smith M, Emary K, Hodgson SH, Thomas TM, Te Water Naude R, Stuart ASV, Henry J, English M, Moore M, Douglas N, Pollard AJ, Vanderslott S. (2024) Roles and responsibilities of participants, researchers, and the media in the communication of vaccine trials: Experience from the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial. Vaccine. Oct 1;42(26):126391. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126391. 
  • Lees, S., Alcanya-Stevens, L., Bowmer, A., Marchant, M., Enria, L., & Vanderslott, S. (2024). Political and Community Logics of Emergent Disease Vaccine Deployment: Anthropological Insights from DRC, Uganda and Tanzania. Anthropologica, 66(1). 10.18357/anthropologica66120242646
  • Kantor, J., Carlisle, R. C., Morrison, M., Pollard, A. J., & Vanderslott, S. (2024). Oxford Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (OVHS): a UK-based and US-based online mixed-methods psychometric development and validation study of an instrument to assess vaccine hesitancy. BMJ open, 14(10), e084669.
  • Chandrasekar, A., Clark, S.E., Martin, S., Vanderslott, S., Flores, E.C., Aceituno, D., Barnett, P., Vindrola-Padros, C. and Vera San Juan, N., (2024). Making the most of big qualitative datasets: a living systematic review of analysis methods. Frontiers in big Data, 7, p.1455399. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2024.1455399 
  • Frampton, S., Orievulu, K., Matthews, P. C., Giubilini, A., Hordern, J., Burns, L., Elias, S., Friederich, E., Majozi, N., Martin, S., Stevenson, A., Vanderslott, S., & Seeley, J. (2024). Pandemic preparedness: why humanities and social sciences matter. Frontiers in Public Health, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569
  • Vanderslott, S., Joynes-Burgess, K., Kadambari, S., O’Dwyer, E., & Alidu, L. (2024). Examining the role of community champions to promote vaccine uptake in under-served communities in the United Kingdom: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100436. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100436
  • Chandrasekar, A., Clark, S., San Juan, N.V., Martin, S., Vanderslott, S., Vindrola-Padros, C., Flores, E. and Aceituno, D., (2024). 7 The LISTEN method–synthesising collaborative and digital methods for big qualitative data analysis. BMJ Open. doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-UCL-QHRN2024.7  
  • Frampton, S., Orievulu, K., Matthews, P.C., Giubilini, A., Hordern, J., Burns, L., Elias, S., Friederich, E., Majozi, N., Martin, S.  Stevenson, A., Vanderslott, S., Seeley, J. S., (2024). Pandemic preparedness: why humanities and social sciences matter. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, p.1394569. doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1394569
  • Bhatt, A., Monk, V., Bhatti, A., Eiden, A.L., Hermany, L., Hansen, N., Connolly, M.P., Baxter, L., Vanderslott, S., Mitrovich, R. and Slater, R., (2024). Identifying factors that can be used to assess a country’s readiness to deploy a new vaccine or improve uptake of an underutilised vaccine: a scoping review. BMJ open, 14(5), p.e080370.
  • Baxter, L., Slater, R., Hermany, L., Bhatti, A., Eiden, A.L., Mitrovich, R., Connolly, M.P., Vanderslott, S., Nyaku, M. and Bhatt, A., (2024). Identifying characteristics that enable resilient immunisation programmes: a scoping review. BMJ open, 14(5), p.e072794.
  • Ruggeri, K., Vanderslott, S., Yamada, Y., Argyris, Y.A., Većkalov, B., Boggio, P.S., Fallah, M.P., Stock, F. and Hertwig, R., (2024). How are Social Media Influencing Vaccination? Behavioural interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media. BMJ, 384: e076542. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-076542

2023

  • Vanderslott, S., Palmer, A., Thomas, T., Greenhough, B., Stuart, A., Henry, J. A., English, M., Naude, R. de W., Patrick-Smith, M., Douglas, N., Moore, M., Hodgson, S. H., Emary, K. R. W., & Pollard, A. J. (2023). Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 909-937. doi:10.1177/01622439211057084
  • Kantor, J., Vanderslott, S., Morrison, M., Pollard, A. J., & Carlisle, R. C. (2023). The Oxford Needle Experience (ONE) scale: a UK-based and US-based online mixed-methods psychometric development and validation study of an instrument to assess needle fear, attitudes and expectations in the general public. BMJ open, 13(12), e074466.
  • Puttick, N. F., Vanderslott, S., & Tanner, R. (2023). Representation of ethnic and racial minority groups in European vaccine trials: a quantitative analysis of clinical trials registries. BMJ Public Health, 1(1). doi:10.1136/bmjph-2023-000042
  • Déom, N., Vanderslott, S., Kingori, P., & Martin, S. (2023). Online on the frontline: A longitudinal social media analysis of UK healthcare workers’ attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines using the 5C framework. Social Science & Medicine, 339, 116313. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116313
  • Thomas, T. M., Hodgson, S. H., Emary, K., Patrick-Smith, M., te Water Naude, R., Stuart, A.S., Henry, J., English, M., Moore, M., Douglas, N. and Pollard, A.J. Vanderslott, S. (2023). The collective voice of early phase COVID-19 vaccine trial participants: Insights for improving confidence in novel vaccines. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 19(1), 2203023.
  • Hillson, K., Kantor, J., Pinto, M. V., Pollard, A. J., Kelly, D., Vanderslott, S., & AWARE clinical trial team. (2023). Motivations for paediatric vaccine trial participation. Trials, 24(1), 574, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07597-2.
  • Vanderslott, S., Kumar, S., Adu-Sarkodie, Y., Qadri, F., & Zellweger, R. M. (2023). Typhoid Control in an Era of Antimicrobial Resistance: Challenges and Opportunities. In Open Forum Infectious Diseases (Vol. 10, No. Supplement_1, pp. S47-S52). US: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad135
  • Fairgrieve, D., Borghetti, J.S., Dahan, S., Goldberg, R., Halabi, S., Holm, S., Howells, G., Kirchhelle, C., Pillay, A., Rajneri, E. Rizzi, M. Sintes, M., Vanderslott, S., Witzleb. N. (2023). Comparing vaccine injury compensation schemes. Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, 31(1), pp.75-118. https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/comparing-vaccine-injury-compensation-schemes 

2022

  • Paul, K.T., S. Vanderslott, and M. Gross (2022) “Institutionalised Ignorance in Policy and Regulation,” Science As Culture. 31(4): 419–32, https://Doi.Org/10.1080/09505431.2022.2143343.
  • Saldanha, S., Kirchhelle, C., Webster, E., Vanderslott, S. and Vaz, M., 2022. Between paternalism and illegality: a longitudinal analysis of the role and condition of manual scavengers in India. BMJ Global Health, 7(7), p.e008733.
  • Vanderslott, S., Enria, L., Bowmer, A., Kamara, A., & Lees, S. (2022). Attributing public ignorance in vaccination narratives. Social Science & Medicine, 115152. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115152
  • Hill, M., Vanderslott, S., Volokha, A., & Pollard, A. J. (2022). Addressing vaccine inequities among Ukrainian refugees. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22(7), 935-936. doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00366-8
  • Pilbeam, C., Anthierens, S., Vanderslott, S., Tonkin-Crine, S., & Wanat, M. (2022). Methodological and ethical considerations when conducting qualitative interview research with healthcare professionals: reflections and recommendations as a result of a pandemic. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. doi.org/10.1177/16094069221077763
  • Manby, L., Dowrick, A., Karia, A., Maio, L., Buck, C., Singleton, G., Lewis-Jackson, S., Uddin, I., Vanderslott, S., et al. (2022). Healthcare workers’ perceptions and attitudes towards the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme: a rapid qualitative appraisal. BMJ open, 12(2). doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051775

2021

  • Martin, S., and Vanderslott, S. (2021). “Any idea how fast ‘It’s just a mask!’ can turn into ‘It’s just a vaccine!’”: From mask mandates to vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine 40.51 (2022): 7488-7499. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.031
  • Dowrick, A., Mitchinson, L., Hoernke, K., Mulachy Symmons, S., Cooper, S., Martin, S., Vanderslott, S., Vera San Juan, N. and Vindrola‐Padros, C., (2021) Re‐ordering connections: UK healthcare workers’ experiences of emotion management during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness. doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13390
  • Oliu-Barton, M., Pradelski, B. S., Aghion, P., Artus, P., Kickbusch, I., Lazarus, J. V., and Vanderslott, S. (2021). Unclear conclusions on SARS-CoV-2 elimination versus mitigation–Authors’ reply. The Lancet, 398(10311), 1566-1567 doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02228-5
  • Vanderslott S., Emary K, Te Water Naude R, English M, Thomas T, Patrick-Smith M, Henry J, Douglas N, Moore M, Stuart A, Hodgson SH, Pollard AJ. (2021) Vaccine nationalism and internationalism: perspectives of COVID-19 vaccine trial participants in the United Kingdom. BMJ Glob Health. Oct;6(10):e006305. doi.10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006305
  • Usher, K. Durkin, J. Martin, S. Vanderslott, S. Vindrola-Padros, C. Usher, L. and Jackson, D. (2021) Australian social media sentiment data and domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR); 23 (10): e29025. doi:10.2196/29025
  • Kadambari, S. and Vanderslott, S. (2021). Lessons about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among minority ethnic people in the UK. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00404-7
  • Vanderslott, S. & Marks, T. (2021). Charting mandatory childhood vaccination policies worldwide. Vaccine. 39: 30 doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.04.065
  • Vanderslott, S. (2021) ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases: Reasons for “Neglect” in Global Health and Directing Attention Towards Neglected Issues’, ELS, pp. 1–8 (Vol. 2). Wiley. doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029130
  • Oliu-Barton, M. Pradelski, B. Aghion, P. Artus, P. Kickbusch, I. Lazarus, J. Sridhar, D. and Vanderslott, S. (2021) SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties The Lancet April 28, doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00978-8
  • Freeman, D. Lambe, S, Yu, LM. Freeman, J. Chadwick, A. Vaccari, C. Waite, F. Rosebrock, L. Petit, A. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2021) Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Psychological Medicine. 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291721002609
  • Freeman, D., Loe, B.S., Yu, L.M., Freeman, J., Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Shanyinde, M., Harris, V., Waite, F., Rosebrock, L. Petit, A., Vanderslott, S. et al (2021). Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III): a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Public Health. doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00096-7
  • Vanderslott, S. Van Ryneveld, M. Marchant, M. et al. (2021). How can community engagement in health research be strengthened for infectious disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa? A scoping review of the literature. BMC Public Health 21, 633 doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10348-0
  • Torracinta, L. Tanner, R. Vanderslott, S. (2021). MMR Vaccine Attitude and Uptake Research in the United Kingdom: A Critical Review. Vaccines 9, no. 4: 402. doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040402
  • Chadwick, A. Kaiser, J. Vaccari, C. Freeman, D. Lambe, S. Loe, B. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2021). “Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom.” Social Media + Society 7 (2): 205630512110088. doi.org/10.1177/20563051211008817
  • Mitchinson, L. Dowrick, A. Buck, C. Hoernke, K. Martin, S. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2021). Missing the Human Connection: A Rapid Appraisal of Healthcare Workers’ Perceptions and Experiences of Providing Palliative Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Palliative Medicine, March, 026921632110042. doi.org/10.1177/02692163211004228
  • Fairgrieve, D. Holm, S. Howells G. Kirchhelle, C. Vanderslott, S. (2021). In favour of a bespoke COVID-19 vaccines compensation scheme, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1473-3099, doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00065-7
  • Hoernke, K. Djellouli, N. Andrews, L. Lewis-Jackson, S. Manby, L. Martin, S. Vanderslott, S. Vindrola-Padros, C. (2021). Frontline healthcare workers’ experiences with personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a rapid qualitative appraisal. BMJ Open 2021;11:e046199. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046199
  • Kirchhelle, C. and Vanderslott, S. (2021) Editorial: The Need for Harmonised International Guidelines ahead of COVID-19 Human Infection Studies. Public Health Rev. 42:1603962. doi: 10.3389/phrs.2021.1603962

2020

  • Vanderslott, S. and Marks, T. (2020). Vaccine entry requirements as a disease control measure: Lessons from yellow fever. Global Public Health. doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1805786
  • Freeman, D. Loe, B. Chadwick, A. Vaccari, C. Waite, F. Rosebrock, L. Jenner, L. Petit, A.  Lewandowsky, S. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2020). COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEANS) II. Psychological Medicine, 1-34. doi:10.1017/S0033291720005188
  • Almond, J. Hacker, J. Harwood, C. Pizza, M. Rappouli, R. Ron, E. Sansonetti, P. Vanderslott, S. Wieler, L. ‘Development of vaccines at the time of Covid-19’ microLife. uqaa003. doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqaa003
  • Vanderslott, S. and Marks, T. (2020). Health diplomacy across borders: the case of yellow fever and COVID-19. Journal of Travel Medicine. taaa112. doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa112
  • Vindrola-Padros, C. Chisnall, G. Cooper, S. Djellouli, N. Dowrick, A. Martin, S. Singleton, G. Symmons, S. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2020). Carrying Out Rapid Qualitative Research During a Pandemic: Emerging Lessons From COVID-19. Qualitative Health Research. August: 104973232095152. doi:10.1177/1049732320951526
  • Vindrola-Padros, C. Andrews, L. Dowrick, A. Djellouli, N. Fillmore, H. Bautista Gonzalez, E.  Javadi, D. Lewis-Jackson, S. Manby, L. Mitchinson, L. Symmons, S. Martin, S. Regenold, N. Robinson, N. Sumray, K. Singleton, G. Syversen, A. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2020). Perceptions and experiences of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, BMJ Open. 10: e040503. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040503
  • Vanderslott, S. (2020). Neglected Tropical Diseases. Nature & Culture. 15(1):78-110. doi:10.3167/nc.2020.150105
  • Kraemer, MUG. Pigott, DM. Hill, SC. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2020). Dynamics of conflict during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2018–2019. BMC Medicine. 18(1):113. doi:10.1186/s12916-020-01574-1

< 2019

  • Kirchhelle, C. Pollard, AJ. Vanderslott, S. (2019). Typhoid—From Past to Future. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69 (Supplement_5): S375-S376. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz551
  • Vanderslott, S. Phillips, MT. Pitzer, VE. Kirchhelle, C. (2019). Water and Filth: Reevaluating the First Era of Sanitary Typhoid Intervention (1840–1940). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 69 (Supplement_5): S377-S384. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz610
  • Giubilini, A., Caviola, L., Maslen, H., Douglas, T., Nussberger, A.-M., Faber, N. S., Vanderslott, S. Loving, S., Harrison, M., & Savulescu, J. (2019). Nudging immunity: the case for vaccinating children in school and day care by default. HEC Forum. doi.org/10.1007/s10730-019-09383-7
  • Vanderslott, S. (2019). Exploring the meaning of pro-vaccine activism across two countries. Social Science & Medicine. 222, 59–66. doi.org/10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2018.12.033
  • Vanderslott, S. (2019). Moving From Outsider to Insider Status Through Metrics: The Inclusion of “Neglected Tropical Diseases” Into the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Human Development & Capabilities. 1-18. doi:10.1080/19452829.2019.1574727
  • Zheng, Q, Vanderslott, S. et al. (2013). Research gaps for three main tropical diseases in the People’s Republic of China. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 2(1). doi.org/10.1186/2049-9957-2-15

Book chapters

  • Johnson, G.A. Martin, S. Vanderslott, S. et al. (2022) ‘People Are Not Taking the Outbreak Seriously’: Interpretations of Religion and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Vindrola-Padros C., Johnson G.A. (eds) Caring on the Frontline during COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
  • Vijaykumar, S. Jin, Y. Vanderslott S, (2021) ‘Chapter 12. COVID-19 misinformation: impacts, challenges and responses for public health’ in ‘Continental dialogues on health communication in times of pandemic’ National Council of Health Secretaries (CONASS), International Editorial Line in Support of Health Systems (LEIASS) Volume 6, Brasília. www.conass.org.br/biblioteca/dialogos-continentais-sobre-comunicacao-em-saude-em-tempos-de-pandemia/

Doctoral thesis

  • Vanderslott, S. Neglect in policy problems: the case of ‘neglected tropical diseases’. (2017) Doctoral thesis. UCL (University College London). Available at: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1573231/
Edited collections
  • Paul, K.T., S. Vanderslott, and M. Gross (2022) “Institutionalised Ignorance in Policy and Regulation,” Science As Culture. 31(4): 419–32, https://Doi.Org/10.1080/09505431.2022.2143343.
  • Kirchhelle, C. Pollard, A. Vanderslott, S. (2019) ‘Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’ Clinical Infectious Diseases. Volume 69, Issue Supplement_5, 1 November. S375-S411. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz551

Book/Peer review

  • Vanderslott S. (2020). “Encouraging vaccination ethically: How can vaccination-preventable diseases and pox parties for grannies be avoided?” American Journal of Bioethics. doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1795545
  • Vanderslott, S. (2019) Book review: Gareth Millward “Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public since the Second World War.” Public Understanding of Science. July. doi:10.1177/0963662519860722
  • Vanderslott, S. (2019). “A Response to ‘Uptake of a Conspiracy Theory Attribution: Part 1 and 2’ by Brian Martin.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (9): 47-50. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-4q8.
  • Vanderslott, S. (2019). “Study Shows Lower Vaccination Rates for Younger Siblings after Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Older Siblings.” Evidence Based Nursing. doi:10.1136/ebnurs-2018-102971

Policy Briefing 

Web publication

Vanderslott S. and Roser, M. (2013) Vaccination Page for ‘Our World in Data’ visualising long-term global development trends: https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination

Media and non-peer reviewed articles