Dr Jessica Kaufman

Senior Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Dr Jessica Kaufman

Senior Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Dr Jessica Kaufman is a Senior Research Fellow in the Vaccine Uptake Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is an expert in vaccine communication and the social and behavioural science of vaccination. Some of her current projects include evaluating the impacts of vaccine mandates in Australia, developing an Arabic-language online game to reduce vaccine misinformation, and training community leaders to be vaccine advocates in the Asia Pacific region. Jessica is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and an E. H. Flack Foundation Fellow. She is the Deputy Chair of the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (COSSI).