Research output per year
Research output per year
Associate Professor, Professor
The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Professor Katie Attwell has supported Australian state and federal governments with vaccine communications, developing interventions for vaccine confidence, and policies for routine and COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as researching vaccination policymaking in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. Her technical expertise lies in vaccination social science and vaccination policy. She focuses on ways to share this expertise with global policymakers, to support the growth of vaccination social science, to build the capacity of vaccination social science researchers, and to assist countries in responding to challenges to their immunisation programs or the rollout of new vaccines.
She is well versed in the global literature on vaccination social science pertaining to vaccine hesitancy and refusal, systemic access barriers and service design challenges, and interventions to enhance uptake. As a policy scholar, she is also well-versed in the ways in which policy change occurs, the inputs and actors involved, policy and program evaluation, etc. She is also an expert in comparative methods, which is particularly useful in helping with the translation of best practice from one context to another.
Professor Katie Attwell is a political science and public policy scholar at the University of Western Australia, where she leads the interdisciplinary VaxPolLab and supports a range of senior and junior scholars in vaccination social and political research. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases at Telethon Kids Institute. Prof Attwell currently holds a four year research fellowship funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of Australia (MRFF) and the University of Western Australia. She is a former Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow. Prof Attwell has engaged in community, systems and behavioural research in the area of vaccination uptake since 2014. Her DECRA (2019-2022) explored mandatory childhood vaccination policies in Australia, Italy, France, and California. Katie led the interdisciplinary West Australian project “Coronavax: Preparing Community and Government”, which engaged in community and government research for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, funded by Wesfarmers and the Health Department of Western Australia. Katie presently leads MandEval, a mixed methods and multi-country study of the implementation and impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, funded by the MRFF.
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 › Review 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
Drislane, S. (Investigator 01), Attwell, K. (Investigator 02) & Moore, H. (Investigator 03)
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/07/24 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
Attwell, K. (Investigator 01), Drislane, S. (Investigator 02), Lake, J. (Investigator 03), Moore, H. (Investigator 04), Hannah, A. (Investigator 05), Ward, J. (Investigator 06) & Duong, H. (Investigator 07)
Department of Health (Western Australia)
4/06/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
Macartney, K. (Investigator 01), Leask, J. (Investigator 02), Nguyen, T. A. (Investigator 03), Sheel, M. (Investigator 04), Sheridan, S. (Investigator 05), Allen, B. (Investigator 06), Danchin, M. (Investigator 07), Crawford, N. (Investigator 08), Francis, J. (Investigator 09), Stewart, T. (Investigator 10), Kaldor, J. (Investigator 11), Lau, C. (Investigator 12), Dowsett, D. (Investigator 13), Craig, A. (Investigator 14), Khandaker, G. (Investigator 15), Attwell, K. (Investigator 16), Blyth, C. (Investigator 17), Apostolellis, A. (Investigator 18), O'Connor, M. (Investigator 19), Frawley, J. (Investigator 20) & Flint, J. (Investigator 21)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
14/05/24 → 15/09/28
Project: Research
Attwell, K. (Investigator 01), Kaufman, J. (Investigator 02), Genie, M. (Investigator 03), Ward, J. (Investigator 04), Regan, A. (Investigator 05), Rizzi, M. (Investigator 06), Le, H. (Investigator 07), Williams, J. (Investigator 08), Evers, U. (Investigator 09) & Blyth, C. (Investigator 10)
Medical Research Future Fund MRFF
9/01/23 → 10/01/28
Project: Research
Attwell, K. (Investigator 01), Carlson, S. (Investigator 02), Hannah, A. (Investigator 03), Blyth, C. (Investigator 04), Miller, K. (Investigator 05), Seth, R. (Investigator 06), Robinson, M. (Investigator 07), Cox, K. (Investigator 08), Manuel, J. (Investigator 09), Swift, V. (Investigator 10) & Beard, F. (Investigator 11)
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/10/22 → 29/11/24
Project: Research
Attwell, K. (Recipient), Tomkinson, S. (Recipient), McKenzie, L. (Recipient), Roberts, L. (Recipient), Carlson, S. (Recipient), Rizzi, M. (Recipient), Harper, T. (Recipient), Tchilingirian, J. (Recipient) & Blyth, C. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
Attwell, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Attwell, K. (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Participation in workshop, seminar or course
Attwell, K. (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Participation in workshop, seminar or course
Attwell, K. (Keynote speaker/Invited speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Attwell, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
Zheng, M., Green, D., Wang, J., Geddes, D., Small, I., Marley, J., Ecker, U., Fang, Q., Melonek, J., Page, A. T. & Attwell, K.
22/11/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
2/06/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Attwell, K. (Participant)
Impact: Health and Well being Impact
Attwell, K. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts
Attwell, K. (Participant)
Impact: Understanding and Awareness Impact
Attwell, K. (Participant), Rizzi, M. (Participant), Duong, H. (Participant), McKenzie, L. (Participant), Tomkinson, S. (Participant), Roberts, L. (Participant), Carlson, S. (Participant) & Blyth, C. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts
Attwell, K. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts