Research output per year
Research output per year
Associate Professor, Dr
The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
A/Prof Attwell is a mid career researcher and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow. A/Prof Attwell has engaged in community, systems and behavioural research in the area of vaccination uptake since 2014, the year of her ground-breaking and internationally recognised “I Immunise” campaign, which drew on behavioural insights to address alternative lifestyle-based vaccine hesitancy in Fremantle, Western Australia. A/Prof Attwell is one of the world’s leading experts on mandatory childhood vaccination, the subject of her current three year research grant. She also leads the interdisciplinary West Australian project “Coronavax: Preparing Community and Government”, which engages in community and government research in readiness for a vaccine roll-out for COVID-19, funded by Wesfarmers and the Health Department of Western Australia. A/Prof Attwell is a Scientific Committee Member of the Annual Vaccine Acceptance Meeting, Fondation Merieux, Les Pensieres Center for Global Health, Veyrier du Lac, France, and a founding Governance Committee Member of the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (COSSI). She is a Fellow of the Public Policy Institute (UWA) and an Honorary Fellow of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth.
Medical Research Future Fund
Australian Research Council
National Health and Medical Research Council
WA Government Future Health Research and Innovation Fund
WA Health
Westfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute
Worldwide Universities Network
Flinders University
Graduate Women WA
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Politics, PhD, Murdoch University
… → 2013
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Murdoch University
… → 2005
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Attwell, K., Carlson, S., Hannah, A., Blyth, C., Miller, K., Seth, R., Robinson, M., Cox, K., Manuel, J., Swift, V. & Beard, F.
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
Attwell, K., Carlson, S., Blyth, C., Harper, T., Rizzi, M., Tchilingirian, J., McKenzie, L., Westphal, D., Effler, P., Hughes, C. & Swift, V.
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Attwell, K., Hannah, A. & Carlson, S.
Department of Health (Western Australia)
28/09/20 → 1/08/22
Project: Research
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/09/20 → 30/11/21
Project: Research
1/01/20 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
Attwell, Katie (Recipient), Tomkinson, Sian (Recipient), McKenzie, Lara (Recipient), Roberts, Leah (Recipient), Carlson, Samantha (Recipient), Rizzi, Marco (Recipient), Harper, Tauel (Recipient), Tchilingirian, Jordan (Recipient) & Blyth, Christopher (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
Attwell, Katie (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
Katie Attwell (Speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Katie Attwell (Speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Katie Attwell (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Katie Attwell (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Katie Attwell (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Minghao Zheng, Daniel Green, Jingbo Wang, Donna Geddes, Ian Small, Julia Marley, Ullrich Ecker, Qi Fang, Joanna Melonek, Amy Theresa Page & Katie Attwell
22/11/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
2/06/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Katie Attwell (Participant)
Impact: Health and Well being Impact
Katie Attwell (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts
Katie Attwell (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts
Katie Attwell (Participant)
Impact: Health and Well being Impact