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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Julie Leask or Julie-Anne Leask is an Australian social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Leask is a leading researcher on social and behavioural aspects of vaccination and infectious disease prevention. Leask’s research focuses on vaccine uptake, communication, strengthening vaccination programs and policy. Leask’s flagship project is Knowledge About Immunisation - a vaccination communication package designed to improve vaccination conversations between parents and health care workers. Additionally, Leask is an advisor to the World Health Organization on vaccine acceptance and demand issues and was the chair of the WHO Measuring Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination working group .
Julie Leask's Published Works
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Published Works
- Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action (2017) (615)
- Communicating with parents about vaccination: a framework for health professionals (2012) (476)
- Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions. (2012) (318)
- Antivaccination activists on the world wide web (2002) (306)
- Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition (2020) (223)
- Associations Between Exposure to and Expression of Negative Opinions About Human Papillomavirus Vaccines on Social Media: An Observational Study (2015) (202)
- Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub‐Saharan refugees in Australia (2006) (188)
- Mapping information exposure on social media to explain differences in HPV vaccine coverage in the United States. (2017) (184)
- COVID-19 is rapidly changing: Examining public perceptions and behaviors in response to this evolving pandemic (2020) (183)
- Target the fence-sitters (2011) (177)
- Vaccine hesitancy, refusal and access barriers: The need for clarity in terminology. (2017) (172)
- Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists: a qualitative study (2010) (147)
- Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19 (2021) (147)
- "Will they just pack up and leave?" – attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemic (2009) (143)
- The MMR vaccination and autism controversy in United Kingdom 1998-2005: inevitable community outrage or a failure of risk communication? (2006) (136)
- Uptake of influenza vaccine by pregnant women: a cross‐sectional survey (2013) (135)
- What maintains parental support for vaccination when challenged by anti-vaccination messages? A qualitative study. (2006) (131)
- Pregnant women's intention to take up a post-partum pertussis vaccine, and their willingness to take up the vaccine while pregnant: a cross sectional survey. (2013) (110)
- Mandate vaccination with care (2019) (106)
- Examining Australian public perceptions and behaviors towards a future COVID-19 vaccine (2020) (105)
- Vaccine decision-making begins in pregnancy: Correlation between vaccine concerns, intentions and maternal vaccination with subsequent childhood vaccine uptake. (2017) (102)
- Parental attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and concerns towards childhood vaccinations in Australia: A national online survey. (2017) (97)
- ‘An attempt to swindle nature’: press anti‐immunisation reportage 1993–1997 (1998) (92)
- Mandatory infant & childhood immunization: Rationales, issues and knowledge gaps. (2018) (89)
- How organisations promoting vaccination respond to misinformation on social media: a qualitative investigation (2019) (89)
- "Do-it-yourself": Vaccine rejection and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). (2018) (86)
- The big picture in addressing vaccine hesitancy (2014) (85)
- Vaccine Rejecting Parents’ Engagement With Expert Systems That Inform Vaccination Programs (2017) (83)
- Trends and patterns in vaccination objection, Australia, 2002–2013 (2016) (81)
- Should influenza immunisation be mandatory for healthcare workers? No (2008) (74)
- Immunisation attitudes, knowledge and practices of health professionals in regional NSW (2008) (69)
- Lessons from an online debate about measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization. (2012) (66)
- The WHO Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) approach: Review of implementation to date. (2017) (66)
- Understanding the perceived logic of care by vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents: A qualitative study in Australia (2017) (65)
- Understanding Pregnant Women’s Attitudes and Behavior Toward Influenza and Pertussis Vaccination (2015) (63)
- Focus group composition: a comparison between natural and constructed groups (2001) (59)
- Preparing the public for COVID-19 vaccines: How can general practitioners build vaccine confidence and optimise uptake for themselves and their patients? (2020) (54)
- COVID-19 Misinformation Trends in Australia: Prospective Longitudinal National Survey (2021) (54)
- Imposing penalties for vaccine rejection requires strong scrutiny (2017) (54)
- 'The cold hard facts' immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases in Australia's newsprint media 1993-1998. (2002) (54)
- Improving uptake of MMR vaccine (2008) (53)
- Condition-specific quality of life questionnaires for caregivers of children with pediatric conditions: a systematic review (2013) (46)
- When parents won’t vaccinate their children: a qualitative investigation of australian primary care providers’ experiences (2017) (43)
- A systematic review of studies that measure parental vaccine attitudes and beliefs in childhood vaccination (2020) (40)
- COVID-19 misinformation in Australia: key groups and trends over time in a national longitudinal survey. (2020) (40)
- Strategies to improve vaccination uptake in Australia, a systematic review of types and effectiveness (2012) (40)
- The impact of a vaccine scare on parental views, trust and information needs: a qualitative study in Sydney, Australia (2017) (40)
- A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda for Understanding Vaccine-Related Decisions (2013) (39)
- Immunization myths and realities: Responding to arguments against immunization (2003) (39)
- Sharing knowledge about immunisation (SKAI): An exploration of parents' communication needs to inform development of a clinical communication support intervention. (2018) (39)
- Paid celebrity endorsement in health promotion: a case study from Australia. (2001) (38)
- Face‐to‐face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination (2018) (37)
- Vaccination hesitancy in the antenatal period: a cross-sectional survey (2018) (36)
- Attitudes amongst Australian hospital healthcare workers towards seasonal influenza and vaccination (2009) (36)
- Should we do battle with antivaccination activists? (2015) (36)
- Public opponents of vaccination: a case study. (2003) (35)
- Understanding non-vaccinating parents’ views to inform and improve clinical encounters: a qualitative study in an Australian community (2019) (35)
- Estimates and determinants of economic impacts from influenza‐like illnesses caused by respiratory viruses in Australian children attending childcare: a cohort study (2013) (33)
- Midwives' attitudes, beliefs and concerns about childhood vaccination: A review of the global literature. (2018) (32)
- Implementation of mandatory immunisation of healthcare workers: observations from New South Wales, Australia. (2011) (32)
- Risk, responsibility and negative responses: a qualitative study of parental trust in childhood vaccinations (2018) (32)
- Communicating with patients and the public about COVID‐19 vaccine safety: recommendations from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (2021) (31)
- Ethical issues in immunisation. (2009) (31)
- A critical review of measures of childhood vaccine confidence. (2021) (31)
- “It just forces hardship”: impacts of government financial penalties on non-vaccinating parents (2018) (30)
- To close the childhood immunization gap, we need a richer understanding of parents' decision-making (2016) (30)
- No Jab, No Pay and vaccine refusal in Australia: the jury is out (2017) (30)
- National survey of general practitioners' experience of delivering the National Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program. (2010) (30)
- Evaluating a web-based MMR decision aid to support informed decision-making by UK parents: A before-and-after feasibility study (2010) (30)
- Using social media for vaccination promotion: Practices and challenges (2020) (30)
- Journalists’ views about reporting avian influenza and a potential pandemic: a qualitative study (2011) (29)
- Vaccination and risk communication: Summary of a workshop, Arlington Virginia, USA, 5–6 October 2000 (2002) (29)
- Communicating about risk: strategies for situations where public concern is high but the risk is low. (2017) (28)
- Awareness, attitudes and behavior of hospital healthcare workers towards a mandatory vaccination directive: two years on. (2011) (27)
- How risk communication could have reduced controversy about school closures in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2020) (27)
- Mandatory vaccination and no fault vaccine injury compensation schemes: An identification of country-level policies. (2019) (27)
- Do they accept compulsory vaccination? Awareness, attitudes and behaviour of hospital health care workers following a new vaccination directive. (2009) (27)
- Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories. (2020) (26)
- Qualitative exploration of intentions, concerns and information needs of vaccine‐hesitant adults initially prioritised to receive COVID‐19 vaccines in Australia (2021) (26)
- Australian Newspaper Coverage of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, October 2006–December 2009 (2012) (25)
- Implementation of the Australian HPV vaccination program for adult women: qualitative key informant interviews. (2009) (25)
- Shared decision making in Australia in 2017. (2017) (24)
- Physician Communication With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: The Start, Not the End, of the Story (2015) (24)
- An audit of the quality of online immunisation information available to Australian parents (2017) (24)
- How do general practitioners persuade parents to vaccinate their children? A study using standardised scenarios. (2009) (24)
- HPV vaccine coverage in Australia and associations with HPV vaccine information exposure among Australian Twitter users (2019) (23)
- Much ado about flu: A mixed methods study of parental perceptions, trust and information seeking in a pandemic (2018) (23)
- Epidemiology of respiratory viral infections in children enrolled in a study of influenza vaccine effectiveness (2014) (22)
- "All manner of ills": The features of serious diseases attributed to vaccination. (2010) (21)
- Limited Role of Bots in Spreading Vaccine-Critical Information Among Active Twitter Users in the United States: 2017-2019. (2020) (21)
- HPV.edu study protocol: a cluster randomised controlled evaluation of education, decisional support and logistical strategies in school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of adolescents (2015) (21)
- Consent and public engagement in an era of expanded childhood immunisation (2011) (20)
- MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn? (2010) (20)
- Vaccine myopia: adult vaccination also needs attention (2017) (20)
- Parental Immunisation Needs and Attitudes Survey in paediatric hospital clinics and community maternal and child health centres in Melbourne, Australia (2018) (20)
- Parents' attitudes towards the influenza vaccine and influencing factors (2011) (20)
- Annual influenza vaccination: coverage and attitudes of primary care staff in Australia (2010) (20)
- Tapping midwives' views about the neonatal hepatitis B vaccine: how welcome is a move towards a health promoting orientation? (2008) (19)
- COVID-19: Beliefs in misinformation in the Australian community (2020) (19)
- Risk communication in public health. (2011) (19)
- Vaccination uptake by vaccine-hesitant parents attending a specialist immunization clinic in Australia (2015) (19)
- Impact of children's influenza‐like illnesses on parental quality of life: A qualitative study (2013) (19)
- COVID-19: talk of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ lets governments off the hook (2022) (19)
- Midwife attitudes: an important determinant of maternal postpartum pertussis booster vaccination. (2011) (18)
- Financial incentives for childhood immunisation - a unique but changing Australian initiative. (2013) (18)
- Tailoring immunisation service delivery in a disadvantaged community in Australia; views of health providers and parents. (2018) (17)
- How heuristics and cognitive biases affect vaccination decisions. (2020) (17)
- Policy considerations for mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (2021) (16)
- Pertussis vaccination coverage among Australian women prior to childbirth in the cocooning era: a two‐hospital, cross‐sectional survey, 2010 to 2013 (2016) (16)
- Attitudes about and access to influenza vaccination experienced by parents of children hospitalised for influenza in Australia. (2019) (15)
- Risk Communication Should be Explicit About Values. A Perspective on Early Communication During COVID-19 (2020) (15)
- Parental decisions about vaccination: Collective values are important (2008) (14)
- Media coverage of anthrax vaccination refusal by Australian Defence Force personnel. (2004) (12)
- Making influenza vaccination mandatory for health care workers: the views of NSW Health administrators and clinical leaders. (2010) (12)
- Feasibility and acceptability of the multi-component P3-MumBubVax antenatal intervention to promote maternal and childhood vaccination: A pilot study. (2020) (12)
- The impact of influenza-like illness in young children on their parents: a quality of life survey (2013) (11)
- Vaccine discussions with parents: The experience of Australian paediatricians (2017) (11)
- Evidence for autism in folklore? (2005) (11)
- Parents' intentions and behavior regarding seasonal influenza vaccination for their children: A survey in child-care centers in Sydney, Australia (2012) (11)
- Financial incentives for childhood immunisation — a unique but changing Australian initiative (2013) (11)
- School-based HPV vaccination positively impacts parents' attitudes toward adolescent vaccination. (2021) (11)
- Respiratory vaccine uptake during pregnancy. (2013) (11)
- Factors Influencing Australian Healthcare Workers’ COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions across Settings: A Cross-Sectional Survey (2021) (11)
- Underpinning of the sharing knowledge about immunisation (SKAI) framework: A qualitative study using recorded observations. (2019) (11)
- Crowdsourcing interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines (2022) (10)
- Community perceptions about infectious disease risk posed by new arrivals: a qualitative study (2006) (9)
- Labels matter: Use and non-use of 'anti-vax' framing in Australian media discourse 2008-2018. (2021) (9)
- Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children (2019) (9)
- Influenza vaccine efficacy in young children attending childcare: A randomised controlled trial (2017) (8)
- Vaccines — lessons from three centuries of protest (2020) (8)
- Current understandings of the impact of mandatory vaccination laws in Europe (2021) (8)
- Concerns about immunisation. Facts are not enough. (2000) (7)
- COVID-19 and missed or delayed vaccination in 26 middle- and high-income countries: An observational survey (2021) (7)
- Reply to Ezzy 1: Yes, qualitative methods are often misunderstood (2001) (7)
- Stigmatized for standing up for my child: A qualitative study of non-vaccinating parents in Australia (2021) (7)
- Australia needs a vaccine injury compensation scheme: Upcoming COVID-19 vaccines make its introduction urgent. (2020) (7)
- Barriers to influenza vaccination of children hospitalised for acute respiratory illness: A cross‐sectional survey (2020) (6)
- Are general practice registrars prepared for immunisation? A cross sectional survey. (2004) (6)
- Designing a multi-component intervention (P3-MumBubVax) to promote vaccination in antenatal care in Australia. (2020) (6)
- Quality of life for parents of children with influenza-like illness: development and validation of Care-ILI-QoL (2014) (6)
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of effectiveness of decision aids for vaccination decision-making. (2021) (6)
- Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY), an endemic syndrome influencing Environmental Policies (2016) (5)
- Parental disease prevention health beliefs and triggers for keeping children home from childcare—a qualitative study in Sydney, Australia (2018) (5)
- Addressing Myths and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Randomized Trial (2021) (5)
- Key lessons from the COVID-19 public health response in Australia (2022) (5)
- Examining the knowledge of and attitudes to pandemic influenza among general practice staff (2010) (5)
- Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs: Lay Concepts of Contagious Disease Transmission in Developed Countries (2013) (4)
- A Consent Support Resource with Benefits and Harms of Vaccination Does Not Increase Hesitancy in Parents—An Acceptability Study (2020) (4)
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians immunisation position statement (2013) (4)
- School-Level Variation in Coverage of Co-Administered dTpa and HPV Dose 1 in Three Australian States (2021) (4)
- Vaccine refusal and the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. (2009) (4)
- Influenza disease and vaccination in children in Australia (2021) (4)
- Water fluoridation and the quality of information available online. (2018) (4)
- Australian caregivers' perceptions of influenza vaccination in pregnancy: A mixed methods exploration. (2019) (4)
- Improving child immunisation rates in a disadvantaged community in New South Wales, Australia: a process evaluation for research translation. (2019) (3)
- Meeting the challenges of reporting on public health in the new media landscape (2017) (3)
- Mandating influenza vaccination in health-care workers (2011) (3)
- Yes, qualitative methods are often misunderstood. (2001) (3)
- A Web Application About Herd Immunity Using Personalized Avatars: Development Study (2020) (3)
- Instruments that measure psychosocial factors related to vaccination: a scoping review protocol (2019) (3)
- Social media platforms have a moral duty to ban misinformation about vaccines: Two leading thinkers on vaccine hesitancy and misinformation debate this crucial question (2020) (3)
- A user-centered approach to developing a new tool measuring the behavioural and social drivers of vaccination. (2021) (3)
- How the experience of medical trauma shapes Australian non-vaccinating parents' vaccine refusal for their children: A qualitative exploration. (2022) (2)
- Differences in school factors associated with adolescent HPV vaccination initiation and completion coverage in three Australian states. (2021) (2)
- PhD thesis opposing immunisation: Failure of academic rigour with real-world consequences. (2019) (2)
- Understanding Immunisation Controversies (2002) (2)
- Midwifery care of non-vaccinating families - Insights from the Byron Shire. (2020) (2)
- No Jab, No Pay and vaccine refusal in Australia: the jury is out (2017) (2)
- Caregivers’ intentions regarding pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination for their children (2010) (2)
- Media Ethics and Infectious Disease (2012) (1)
- A systematic review of parental vaccine hesitancy and refusal in childhood vaccination (2019) (1)
- The administration of intravenous fluids to nulliparous women in labour: A retrospective clinical chart review and fluid balance documentation audit (2021) (1)
- A discourse analysis of health provider interactions with parents who are reluctant to vaccinate. (2021) (1)
- Immunisation status screening in the emergency department: Why are we forgetting the elderly? (2019) (1)
- Willingness to receive a vaccine is influenced by adverse events following immunisation experienced by others (2022) (1)
- Media researchers must understand the audience too. (2016) (1)
- Addressing Myths and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Randomized Trial. (2021) (1)
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Intended Behaviour of Hospital Health Care Workers Around Pandemic Influenza (2008) (1)
- Presumptive formats in vaccine discussions with parents: capitulation but at what cost? (2013) (1)
- Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition (2020) (1)
- The Collaboration for Increasing Influenza Vaccination in Children (CIIVIC): a meeting report (2021) (1)
- Addressing Myths and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Randomized Trial. (2021) (0)
- Addressing vaccine hesitancy and rejection in the clinical encounter: the SKAI project (2017) (0)
- The Rewards and Challenges of Academic Supervision - Associate Professor Julie Leask (2015) (0)
- Domestic violence at the time of pregnancy and the risk of adverse maternal and neonatal health outcomes (2017) (0)
- Listen up, health officials – here’s how to reduce ‘Ebolanoia’ (2014) (0)
- Vaccine Champions Training Program: Empowering Community Leaders to Advocate for COVID-19 Vaccines (2022) (0)
- Addressing Myths and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Randomized Trial. (2021) (0)
- The effectiveness of strategies to address vaccine hesitancy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (2022) (0)
- The administration of intravenous fluids to women in labour: An exploration of midwifery perspectives and clinical variation (2022) (0)
- Midwives in the Byron Shire: Managing challenging conversations about vaccination (2018) (0)
- ' s report Title : Awareness , Attitudes , and Practices Related to the Swine Influenza Pandemic among the Saudi Public Version : 1 Date : 3 December 2009 (0)
- Association between traumatic life events and vaccine hesitancy: A cross-sectional Australian study (2023) (0)
- COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Adults in Italy: Evidence from the OBVIOUS Project, a National Survey in Italy (2023) (0)
- Shared Decision Making in Routine Childhood Vaccination: What do Parents Want? (2017) (0)
- “It just forces hardship”: impacts of government financial penalties on non-vaccinating parents (2018) (0)
- COVID-19 Misinformation Survey (2021) (0)
- Information in practice Effects of a web based decision aid on parental attitudes to MMR vaccination: a before and after study (2005) (0)
- COVID‐19 testing decisions and behaviours in two Australian cities (2022) (0)
- Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19 (2021) (0)
- Traumatic Events and Vaccination Decisions: A Systematic Review (2022) (0)
- COVID-19 Misinformation Trends in Australia: Prospective Longitudinal National Survey (Preprint) (2020) (0)
- ‘Get your own house in order’: Qualitative dialogue groups with nonvaccinating parents on how measles outbreaks in their community should be managed (2022) (0)
- Vaccination barriers and drivers in Romania: a focused ethnographic study (2022) (0)
- Midwives' perspectives of intravenous fluid management and fluid balance documentation in labour: A qualitative reflexive thematic analysis study (2022) (0)
- Care Influenza-Like Illnesses Quality of Life Questionnaire (2019) (0)
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding influenza vaccination among parents of infants hospitalised for acute respiratory infection in Australia. (2022) (0)
- Structural and social inequities contribute to pockets of low childhood immunisation in New South Wales, Australia (2021) (0)
- Factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine decision making in older adults and people with underlying conditions in Victoria, Australia: A cross-sectional survey (2022) (0)
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