| Steering Group | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Robert Böhm | To understand and improve human behaviors related to global challenges, such as preventing conflict and violence, eliminating infectious diseases, mitigating climate change, and improving human interaction with modern technologies |
| Eva Krockow | The psychology of medical decision making and public health risk literacy, as well as collective intelligence approaches for optimising health-related decisions, health risk communication about antibiotic resistance and understanding core principles underlying more general decision making, cooperation and defection |
| Miroslav Sirota | Psychology of antibiotics use (e.g., patients’ expectations of antibiotics), public health communication concerning antibiotics, prescribers’ judgments and reasoning, public’s decision-making concerning antibiotics |
| Lucie Byrne-Davis | All aspects of health worker practice change e.g: prescribing changes, reviewing antimicrobials, expert-expert communication |
| Members | |
| Michèle Denise Birtel | Social stigma, patient-doctor interactions in healthcare, the role of culture, health inequalities, interventions |
| Michael Borg | Cultural driversd and behaviour change implementation |
| Anica Buckel | Cognitive and social factors of AMR; Intervention design (i.e. behaviour change). Focus on the agricultural livestock sector in LMICs (farm-level) |
| Alison Burrell | Animal health, behaviour change interventions and motivational interviewing training for veterinary practitioners and others working in animal health and welfare, herd health planning, preventative vet med and reduced AMU and AMR |
| Daniel Carelli | Bureaucratic politics and the history of governance over antimicrobial resistance; transnational administrative collaboration/coordination |
| Domingo Caro III | Antimicrobial Resistance, Behaviour Change, Communication for development |
| Enrique Castro-Sanchez | Influence of health literacy on decision making about antibiotics, policymaker decision |
| Mark Chambers | Visualisation tools to make the “invisible, visible” in order to change attitudes and behaviours towards IPC, thereby reducing reliance on antibiotics |
| Xinghui Chen | Behavioural interventions in health |
| George Chryssochoidis | Consumer Behaviour, Marketing, Management of Innovations |
| Andrew Colman | Physician and patient risk assessment and decision making |
| Gloria Córdoba | Patient /doctor comunnication, risk behaviour, prescribing style |
| Alicia Demirjian | I lead the antimicrobial resistance and prescribing team at UKHSA and am a consultant in paediatric infectious diseases in a large London Trust. I am keen to share lessons learned and collaborate on projects addressing AMR. |
| Chris Eades | Antimicrobial use in immunocompromised populations (particularly hematological malignancy); the interface between infection specialists and other specialty doctors |
| Lorna Flintham | AMR, lifestyle & demographic risks and behavioural change |
| Benjamin Gardner | Habits; automaticity; behaviour change; psychology |
| Vaida Gegieckaite | Psychological bias relating to clinical decision making for antimicrobial prescribing |
| Mattis Geiger | Develop measurement instruments for AMR related psychological constructs, such as AMR knowledge, opinions/action readiness, and AMR related behavior in different groups (general population, healthcare workers, farmers) |
| Kate Grailey | Understanding public comprehension of AMR, designing behavioural nudges to improve antimicrobial stewardship, educational initiatives for AMR |
| Marina Gross | Health decision making, information seeking behavior, decision aids, delayed prescription |
| Hafeez Hamza | Youth Health Seeking Behaviors |
| Niklas Harring | Social dilemma perspective on the consumption of antibiotics; acceptance of policies and policy instruments |
| Jo Hart | Health worker practice change, with special interests in education and training interventions, and health professional communication; in the UK and in low resource settings |
| Emily Holmes | Use of Behavioural Economics to inform strategies to tackle AMR |
| Gerry Hughes | Antimicrobial prescribing behavior; patient engagement/involvement in AMR/AMS; expanding use of qualitative methods in AMR/AMS research and within infection disciplines; dissemination of research to lay community; mixed methods research in infection |
| Angelos Kassianos | determinants of uptake and resistance; behavioural approaches; behavioural interventions |
| Claire Kilpatrick | Patient safety, Human factors, Infection prevention, Antimicrobial resistance, Behavior change, Global health, Public health, Social media |
| Lars Korn | Behavior Change, Risk perceptions, Decision environment |
| Olga Kostopoulou | Cognitive issues in doctors’ prescribing practices |
| Dube Kululeko | AMR/ AMU surveillance; One Health |
| Pippa Lally | Habits and behaviour change; interested how this applies in this area |
| Markus Lehmkuhl | Media Representation of infectious diseases |
| Tiina Likki | Intervention research; policy recommendations |
| Becky McCall | storytelling in AMR |
| Rachel McMullan | Behaviour and workplace change to support AMR surveillance and stewardship and how this can be supported by professional learning |
| Lena Merkel | AMR in sub-Saharan Africa, behavorial economics, experimental economics |
| Robert Murphy | Interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing |
| Ndege Ngere | Behaviour Change Communication |
| Bernard Okeah | Antibiotics, vaccines, infectious diseases, infection prevention, behaviour change |
| Ruth Omani | Application of socio-behavioral sciences to solve AMR and Science related problems |
| Kristina Osbjer | One Health with a foucs on agri-food systems and animals |
| Vida A Parady | Social and Behavior Change |
| Olga Poluektova | Behavioural aspects of antimicrobial prescription and use |
| Klajdi Puka | Using behavioural science to improve antimicrobial stewardship |
| Brieze Read | Patients’ expectations of antibiotics, public health communication concerning antibiotics, prescribes’ judgments and reasoning |
| Leonhard Reiter | Health decision making, emerging technologies and their impact on (public) health |
| Deirdre Robertson | Currently researching behavioural predictors of antimicrobial prescribing in collaboration with a clinical team |
| Felicia Robertson | Patient perspectives, motivations, risk assessment and decision making regarding antibiotics use. Public health communication and campaigns, policy design and collective action theory |
| Kevin Roche | Optimization of antimicrobial stewardship in primary care settings |
| Björn Rönnerstrand | Large-scale collective action. Interpersonal trust and confidence in political institutions and authorities. Altruism and egoism in the individual vaccination decision |
| Sion Scott | Application of behavioural science to address AMR |
| Holly Seale | research focused on community pharmacists and drug sellers (low-income settings) focused on inappropriate antibiotic prescription and consumption. Work in Australia, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone |
| Ana Santana Paula | Health decision making, social interactions in antibiotic intake from a social dilemma perspective |
| Alina Schneider | AMR |
| Angela Schuster | AMR, Planetary Health, Implementation science |
| Elisabeth Sievert | Treatment expectations for antibiotics, doctor-patient interactions, decision aids |
| Carolyn Tarrant | Impact of context, culture and systems on antibiotic use and infection management in healthcare; qualitative methods to diagnose problems, inform intervention design, and evaluate implementation |
| Andriana Theodoropoulou | Patients’ expectations and antibiotic decisions, signal detection theory, public health communication concerning antibiotics, prescribers’ judgments and reasoning |
| Alistair Thorpe | Patient expectations and antibiotic decisions, antibiotic health communication and education |
| Volker Thoma | Behavior change, advice giving, human judgment processes |
| Sarah Tonkin-Crine | Clinician behavior change and use of diagnostics |
| Diletta Topazio | Behavioral Economics on AMR |
| Rebecca Turner | Optimization and implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship interventions in hospital-based care, healthcare professional practice |
| Kerstin Unfried | Health behavior and behavior change: prescription and consumption of anitbiotics |
| Christophe Vermeulen | Use of behavioral sciences to impact behaviors and behavioral determinants |
| Lieve Vonken | Promoting healthcare professionals to change their behavior to help curb AMR |
| Marta Wanat | Designing and evaluating complex interventions aimed to improve antibiotic stewardship in primary care; special interest in penicillin allergy |
| Isabella Wagner | Research on cognition-brain-microbiome interactions and how antibiotics affect microbially-derived neurotransmitters in the gut, and how this impacts brain & cognition |
| Erica Westwood | Behaviour change in interventions for AMR in human and animal health |
| Wesal Zaman | Behavioral change |
| Ning Zhang | Currently focus on the interdisciplinary research of behavioral science and public health, with projects in nudging health behavior change and early cancer screening. Interesed in expanding the research into antimicrobial resistance and collaborate with other scholars in this line of research |