
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
01/01/2024Analysis plan for a synthesis of interventions aimed at increasing vaccine uptake
A scoping review of behavioural science approaches and frameworks for health protection and emergency response
Perspectives in Public Health
Prevalence, Trends, and Distribution of Hepatitis C Virus among the General Population in Sub-Saharan Africa
Liver International
Primary care-based interventions for secondary prevention of opioid dependence in patients with chronic non-cancer pain taking pharmaceutical opioids
BJGP Open
Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C in Ethiopia
Journal of Viral Hepatitis