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I'm a sociologist and research fellow at INSERM (CERMES3, Villejuif). I'm interested in the emergence of public debates and public attitudes to science on medical issues. My approach lies at the intersection of political sociology, the sociology of science and the sociology of cognition and representations. My work has focused mainly on vaccination in France, but also on a range of other subjects such as the prescription of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, public perception of what constitutes a conflict of interest, and of clinical trials.

Since 2020, I have been an expert member of the Commission Technique des Vaccinations at the Haute Autorité de la Santé. I am also a member of the board of the 'Science and Technology in Society' thematic network of the French Sociology Association.

Ongoing projects

Since 2023, I lead the AMèS project (L'autorité de la médecine scientifique à l'épreuve des controverses sur la recherche clinique, funded by : ANR), which focuses in particular on the impact that controversies about clinical research can have on public attitudes to medical knowledge.

Since 2023, I co-lead the ICOVAC-France project (Impact de la Covid-19 sur la vaccination en France, funded by ANRS-MIE) with Patrick Peretti-Watel (INSERM, UVE). This project is looking at current developments in the mobilisation and controversy surrounding vaccines, ordinary relationships with vaccines and the vaccination practices of healthcare professionals in France.

More information on the project: https://shs-vaccination-france.com/le-projet-icovac/

The SHS-Vaccination France network:

As part of the ICOVAC-France project, we have set up the SHS-Vaccination France network to encourage contacts, exchanges and collaborations between researchers interested in the human and social aspects of vaccination in France and elsewhere. For more information, to receive the newsletter or to join the network: https://shs-vaccination-france.com

Publications

On hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19

Schultz E., Atlani-Duault L., Peretti-Watel P., Ward J.K., Does the public know when a scientific controversy is over? Public perceptions of hydroxychloroquine in France between April 2020 and June 2021, Therapies 77 (5), 591-602, 2022.

Schultz E., Ward J.K., Science under COVID-19’s magnifying glass: lessons from the first months of the chloroquine debate in the French press, Journal of Sociology, 58 (1), 2021.

Lutaud R., Scronias D., Ward J.K., Verger P., The Hydroxychloroquine Debate: A Therapeutic Dilemma for General Practitioners, European Journal of Public Health 31(2), 283–285, 2021.

Lutaud R., Ward J.K., Gentile G., Verger P., 12. Between an Ethics of Care and Scientific Uncertainty: Dilemmas of General Practitioners in Marseille, in Lupton D., Willis K., The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives, Routledge, 2021.

On public attitudes to medical research, medicine and scientific institutions more generally (not vaccination)

Schultz E., Mancini J., Ward J.K.,  What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers? Social Science & Medicine 327, 2023.

Schultz E., Ward J.K., Atlani-Duault L., Public perception of scientific advisory bodies: the case of France’s Covid-19 Scientific Council, Science and Public Policy, scad067, 2023.

Schultz E., Mignot L., Ward J.K., Bomfim D.B., Chabannon C., Mancini J., Public perceptions of the association between drug effectiveness and drug novelty in France during the COVID-19 pandemic, Therapies 77 (6), 693-701

Schultz E., JK Ward, Public perceptions of scientific advice: toward a science savvy public culture?, Public Health 194, 86-88, 2021.

Schultz E., JK Ward, L Atlani-Duault, SM Holmes, J Mancini, French public familiarity and attitudes toward clinical research during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (5), 2611, 2021.

On vaccination: publications in social science journals and book chapters

Ward JK., Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins: Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19, L'Année sociologique, 2(73), 267-294, 2023.

Ward JK., F Gauna, MJ Deml, N MacKendrick, P Peretti-Watel, Diversity of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccines: A representative cross-sectional study in France, Social Science & Medicine 328, 115952, 2023.

Ward JK., S Cortaredona, H Touzet, F Gauna, P Peretti-Watel, Explaining political differences in attitudes to vaccines in France: partisan cues, disenchantment with politics and political sophistication, Preprint. PsyArXiv, 2023. Accessible here; https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5mbnf

Ward JK., S Cortaredona, F Gauna, P Peretti-Watel, Partisan cues provide a very limited explanation of political differences in intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19 in France, Preprint, Psyarxiv, 2023. Accessible here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aghvc

Ward JK, B Morovich, M Selim, Les vaccins entre science et politique: Entretien avec Jeremy K. Ward, réalisé par Barbara Morovich et Monique Selim, Journal des anthropologues, 79-90, 2023.

Ward JK., Que nous disent les réticences du public à l’égard des vaccins contre la Covid-19 des rapports ordinaires à la science ? Annales des Mines-Responsabilite et environnement, 4 (108), 78-81, 2022.

Ward JK., D’une pandémie à l’autre: la France est-elle un pays d’antivaccins ? In Senik  C., Pandémies, 63-82, 2022.

Peretti-Watel P., C Alleaume, O Launay, J Raude, É Schultz, JK Ward, Une crise politisée ? Masques, chloroquine & vaccin, in Peretti-Watel P., Huis-clos avec un virus. Comment les Français ont-ils vécu le premier confinement, 2022.

P Peretti-Watel P., J Raude, JK Ward, J Constance, Quid de la confiance des Français à l’égard des autorités ? in Peretti-Watel P., Huis-clos avec un virus. Comment les Français ont-ils vécu le premier confinement, 2022.

Cafiero F., Guille-Escuret P., Ward J.K., “I’m not an antivaxxer, but…”: Spurious and authentic diversity among vaccine critical activists, Social Networks, 65, pp. 63-70, 2021.

Attwell K., Ward J.K., Tomkinson S., Manufacturing Consent for Vaccine Mandates: A Comparative Case Study of Communication Campaigns in France and Australia, Frontiers in Communication 6, 20, 2021.

Ward J.K., Alleaume C., Peretti-Watel., Groupe Coconel, The French public’s attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue, Social Science and Medicine, 2020.

Ward J.K., Comparing forms and degrees of critique: Ontologies of vaccine criticism, Science and Technology Studies, vol 33, n°1, pp54-75. 2020.

Ward J.K., Peretti-Watel P., Comprendre la méfiance vis-à-vis des vaccins: des biais de perception aux controversies, Revue Francaise de Sociologie 61 (2), pp. 243-273, 2020.

          Available in English: Ward J.K., Peretti-Watel P., Understanding vaccine mistrust: From perception bias to controversies, Revue Francaise de Sociologie 61 (2), pp. 243-273, 2020. Accessible here: https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-sociologie-2020-2-page-243.htm

Ward J.K., Journalists and Science: Boundary-making in the media coverage of the 2009 pandemic flu vaccine’s safety in France, Sociologie, 4, 10. 2019.

Ward J.K., Journalists and Science 2: diversity in the media coverage of the 2009 pandemic flu vaccine’s safety in France, Socarxiv, 2020. Available here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/75tnh/

Wilson R.J.I., Vergélys C., Ward J.K., Peretti-Watel P., Verger P., Vaccine hesitancy among general practitioners in Southern France and their reluctant trust in the health authorities, International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 15(1), 2020

Peretti-Watel P., Ward J.K., Vergelys C., Bocquier A., Raude J., Verger P., “I think I made the right decision… I hope I’m not wrong”, Vaccine Hesitancy, commitment and trust among parents of young children, Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(6), 2019.

Ward J.K., Guille-Escuret P., Alapetite C., Les « antivaccins », figure de l’anti-Science, Déviance et société, 43(2), 2019.

Ward J.K., Cafiero F., Fretigny R., Colgrove J., Seror V., France’s citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in Health, Social Science and Medicine, 220(1), 2019.

Ward J.K, Informer sans Inquiéter : Rationalité et Irrationalité du public dans la communication sur la Grippe A, In Mazeaud A., Gourgues G., Les publics de l’action publique : Gouvernement et résistances. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses du Septentrion, 2018.

Ward J.K., Dans la gestion d’une crise, il faut éviter l’affolement et la panique » Comment les communicants légitiment le sens commun des décideurs politiques, Politiques de Communication, 11, 2019.

Ward J.K., La critique vaccinale au temps du vaccin contre la grippe A(H1N1) : Comparer les comparaisons, Sciences Sociales et Santé, 35(4), 2017.

Ward J.K., Crépin L., Bauquier C., Vergelys C., Bocquier A., Verger P., Peretti-Watel P., ‘I don’t know if I’m making the right decision’: French mothers and HPV vaccination in a context of controversy, Health, Risk and Society, 19(1-2), 2017.

Ward J.K., Rethinking the Antivaccine Movement concept: A case study of public criticism of the swine flu vaccine's safety in France, Social Science and Medicine, 159(3), 2016.

On vaccination: selection of publications in medical and interdisciplinary journals

(Complete list here: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=-TaEKEUAAAAJ&hl=fr )

Khouri C., A Larabi, P Verger, F Gauna, JL Cracowski, JK Ward, Exploring the feelings of being at risk of vaccine related adverse effects: A cross-sectional survey in France, Journal of Psychosomatic Research 172, 111433, 2023.

McKinley C.J., E Olivier, JK Ward., The Influence of Social Media and Institutional Trust on Vaccine Hesitancy in France: Examining Direct and Mediating Processes, Vaccines 11 (8), 1319, 2023.

Khouri C., A Larabi, P Verger, F Gauna, JL Cracowski, JK Ward., Impact of Vaccine Hesitancy on Onset, Severity and Type of Self-reported Adverse Events: A French Cross-Sectional Survey, Drug Safety 45 (10), 1049-1056, 2023.

Ward J.K., Gauna F., Gagneux-Brunon A., Botelho-Nevers E., Cracowski J-L., Khouri C., Launay O., Verger P., Peretti-Watel P., The French health pass holds lessons for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, Nature Medicine, 2022.

Nguyen LBL, J Ghosn, C Durier, C Tachot, E Tartour, A Touati, T Simon, ..., A prospective national cohort evaluating ring MVA vaccination as post-exposure prophylaxis for monkeypox, Nature medicine 28 (10), 1983-1984, 2022.

Faccin M., F Gargiulo, L Atlani-Duault, JK Ward, Assessing the influence of French vaccine critics during the two first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Plos One 4 (17), 2022.

A Gagneux-Brunon, E Botelho-Nevers, M Bonneton, P Peretti-Watel, ...,  Public opinion on a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in France: a cross-sectional survey, Clinical Microbiology and Infection 28 (3), 433-439, 2022.

Dubé E., Ward J.K., Verger P., Macdonald N., Vaccine Hesitancy, Acceptance, and Anti-Vaccination: Trends and Future Prospects for Public Health, Annual Review of Public Health, 42, 2021

Groupe Coconel, A future vaccination campaign against COVID-19 at risk of vaccine hesitancy and politicisation, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol 20 (7), 2020.

Ward J.K., Peretti-Watel P., Bocquier A., Seror V., Verger P., Vaccine hesitancy and coercion: all eyes on France, Nature Immunology, 20, 2019.

Bouchez M., Ward J.K., Bocquier A., Benamouzig D., Peretti-Watel P., Seror V., Verger P., Physicians’ decision processes about the HPV vaccine: A qualitative study, Vaccine, 39 (3), pp. 521-528, 2021.

Gargiulo F., Cafiero F., Guille-Escuret P., Seror V., Ward J.K., Asymmetric participation of defenders and critics of vaccines to debates on French-speaking Twitter, Scientific Reports, 10, 6599, 2020.

Bocquier A., Fressard L., Cortaredona S., Zaytseva A., Ward J.K., Gautier A., Peretti-Watel P., Verger P., Baromètre santé 2016 group., Social differentiation of vaccine hesitancy among French parents and the mediating role of trust and commitment to health: a nationwide cross-sectional study, Vaccine, 36(50), 2019.

Ward J.K., Colgrove J., Verger P., Why France is making eight new vaccines mandatory, Vaccine, 36(14), 2018.

Ward J.K., Colgrove J., Verger P., France's risky vaccine mandates, Science, 358(6362), 2017.

Bocquier A., Ward J.K.,  Raude J., Peretti-Watel P., Verger P., Socioeconomic differences in childhood vaccination in developed countries: a systematic review of quantitative studies, Expert Review of Vaccines, 16(11), 2017.

Ward J.K., Peretti-Watel. P., Verger. P., Vaccine criticism on the internet: propositions for future research, Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 12(7), 2016.

Peretti-Watel. P., Larson H.J., Ward J.K., Schulz. W. S., Verger. P., Vaccine Hesitancy: Clarifying a Theoretical Framework for an Ambiguous Notion, PLOS Currents Outbreaks, 2015.

Ward J.K., Raude J, Understanding influenza vaccination behaviors: a comprehensive sociocultural framework, Expert reviews of vaccines, 13(1), 2014.

On other topics

Schultz E., R Touzani, J Mancini, JK Ward, From contact tracing to COVID-19 pass holder; the tortured journey of the French TousAntiCovid contact tracing app, Public Health 206, 5-7, 2022.

Ward J.K., Cafiero F., Peretti-Watel P., Governing by press release?, Infectious Diseases Now, 51(5): 501–502, 2021.

Atlani-Duault L., Ward J.K., Roy M., Morin C., Wilson A., Tracking online heroisation and blame in epidemics, The Lancet Public Health, 5 (3), e137-e138, 2020.

Peretti-Watel P., Ward J.K., Lutaud R., Seror V., Lyme disease: Insight from social sciences, Medecine et maladies infectieuses, 49 (2), 2019.

Raude J., Peretti-Watel P., Ward J.K., Flamand C., Verger P., Are Perceived Prevalences of Infection also Biased and How? Lessons from Large Epidemics of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Tropical Regions, Medical Decision Making, 38(3), 2018.

Ward J.K., Entre tourisme et éthique : la politisation de l'expérience du voyage solidaire, EspacesTemps, 2012.

Voir aussi les publications en tant que membre du COCONEL Group.

Thesis supervision in progress


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