our research
Understanding motivations and barriers that impact health care professionals’ recommendation of HPV vaccine and parents’ decisions to vaccinate their children is a key component in increasing uptake of HPV vaccine.
Behaviour Change Communications Research
Explore the behaviour change communications research findings below and their translation into tools and resources designed to optimise the interaction between health care professionals and parents to increase the uptake of HPV vaccine.
What behavioural biases affect physician recommendations of HPV vaccine in India?
Find messages and communication solutions that can support physicians with making a confident recommendation for the HPV vaccine in this behavioural communications research study.
What motivates parents in Kenya and Colombia to take their daughters to get the HPV vaccine and what beliefs and barriers stop them?
Read about the message framing and behaviour change communications research that can help empower parents to get their adolescent girls the HPV vaccine.
How do community health workers in Kenya educate their communities about cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine?
Read insights from our observational studies with CHWs to inform your next capacity building training and help CHWs more effectively encourage parents to get their daughters vaccinated.
Engaging Healthcare Professionals
The most important predictor of parents choosing to vaccinate their adolescents is a strong recommendation from a health care professional. Impactful behaviour change results from addressing the psychological factors of behaviour with the right interventions to overcome barriers and leverage enablers amongst healthcare professionals and parents.
Our research-to-action framework focuses on identifying behavioral barriers and enablers at key points of interaction between health care professionals and parents and with partners – testing co-created solutions, translating insights into actions and usable resources, and implementing actions.
Research to Action Framework
Purpose: Optimise points of interactions between health care professionals & parents.
- Gain Insights
- Study behavioral barriers & enablers of HCP/parents to HPV vaccine update
- Identify partners to reach HCP/parents
- Co-design & test solutions with partners
- Take Action
- Translate insights into action
- Support partners to implement actions
Take Action
We have the science and tools to usher in the first generation of women free from cervical cancer. Medical societies, ministries of health, and civil society organisations can help increase HPV vaccine uptake and prevent women from cervical cancer in every community worldwide.
Learn how your organisation or agency can prioritise HPV vaccination and act today, so together we can stop cervical cancer before it starts.
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