Pauline Paterson

Dr. Pauline Paterson is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and holds a joint appointment at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London. She specializes in public confidence in immunizations and climate change risk communication, with affiliations to the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Vaccines and Immunisation and the UK Health Security Agency.

• PhD in Epidemiology, Imperial College London
• MBA and MSc in Environmental Technology, Imperial College London

Her research focuses on:

• Vaccine hesitancy and public trust in immunization programs
• Climate change perceptions and communication strategies
• Misinformation narratives in health contexts
• Health system preparedness for climate-related diseases

Recent publications highlight trends in vaccine confidence mapping, behavioral analysis of healthcare workers during pandemics, and cross-disciplinary studies linking climate action co-benefits with immunization attitudes. Her work spans both global and UK-specific contexts.

Current projects include:

• Evaluating multilingual COVID-19 vaccine chatbots (2022-present)
• IRIS Academic Research Group participation (2021-2024)
• Global maternal vaccination attitudes study (2018-2020)