
Dr Clare French
BSc(Cardiff), MSc(LSHTM), PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Clare is a Senior Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis based in the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science. She has background in epidemiology and public health with an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from University College London where she investigated the epidemiology of sequential pregnancies among women living with HIV in the UK and Ireland.
Clare conducts reviews on a broad range of topics, focused mainly on interventions for infectious diseases. She has a particular interest in vaccine-preventable diseases and the effectiveness of interventions to increase vaccine uptake, especially among underserved populations.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Interventions to increase vaccine uptake: Systematic review and component network meta-analysis to identify the most effective strategies
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2022 to 30/09/2024
Rapid funding call to use and enrich the data within the Data & Connectivity National Core Study (NCS) capability
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2021 to 30/06/2021
Publications
Recent publications
16/03/2026EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE VACCINE UPTAKE
The BMJ
Interventions to improve testing, linkage to care, and treatment for hepatitis C infection in prison
International Journal of Drug Policy
Interventions to increase vaccine uptake among socially excluded groups
Vaccine
Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus amongst Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Internally Displaced Populations within Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Global Public Health
A synthesis of economic data from randomized trials of recipient-focused interventions to increase vaccine uptake
Vaccine

