Dr Clare French
BSc(Cardiff), MSc(LSHTM), PhD
Current positions
Research Fellow in Research Synthesis
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Clare is a Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis based in the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural Science and Evaluation. She has background in epidemiology and public health with an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from University College London where she investigated the epidemiology of sequential pregnancies among women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland.
Clare has worked in evidence synthesis at the University of Bristol since 2014. She has conducted reviews on a broad range of topics, focused mainly on interventions for infectious diseases. She has a particular interest in vaccine-preventable diseases and the effectiveness of interventions to increase vaccine uptake, especially among underserved populations.
Publications
Recent publications
10/06/2024A scoping review of behavioural science approaches and frameworks for health protection and emergency response
Perspectives in Public Health
A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine
The Agile Co-production and Evaluation framework for developing public health interventions, messaging and guidance
Frontiers in Public Health
Daily use of lateral flow devices by contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases to enable exemption from isolation compared with standard self-isolation to reduce onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in England
Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Interventions to enhance testing, linkage to care, and treatment initiation for hepatitis C virus infection
The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology