Amelia M Jamison
Biographic Data
| ID | 242900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amelia M Jamison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amelia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamison |
| SIGNATURE | JAMISON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3954-9581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Using WhatsApp for vaccine promotion in low- and middle-income countries: Practitioner-informed perspectives
BOX The combination of WhatsApp’s widespread use in low- and middle-income countries and array of low-cost messaging and data features suggests that the platform has great potential for health communication applications, including for vaccine promotion
More work for Ashas? Exploring the role of whatsapp messaging and community health work in urban slum areas of Varanasi, India
India’s community health workers (CHWs) have taken on an onerous set of responsibilities for the welfare of their clients across a variety of health domains, including providing modern contraception for family planning, promoting childhood vaccinations, and enhancing pregnant women’s nutritional outcomes. Governments have also added technology to this mix under the assumption that new digital tools can relieve the work burdens. Through interviews…
LetsTalkShots: Personalized vaccine risk communication
Introduction Vaccine hesitancy is a global health threat undermining control of many vaccine-preventable diseases. Patient-level education has largely been ineffective in reducing vaccine concerns and increasing vaccine uptake. We built and evaluated a personalized vaccine risk communication website called LetsTalkShots in English, Spanish and French (Canadian) for vaccines across the lifespan. LetsTalkShots tailors lived experiences, credible so…
Evaluation of online videos to engage viewers and support decision-making for Covid-19 vaccination: How narratives and race/ethnicity enhance viewer experiences
Background Vaccine hesitancy has hampered the control of COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Methods We conducted a national internet-based, quasi-experimental study to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine informational videos. Participants received an informational animated video paired with the randomized assignment of (1) a credible source (differing race/ethnicity) and (2) sequencing of a personal narrative before or after the video address…
Production of vaccination videos in India: Learnings from a science-art partnership
When projects require close collaborations between scientists and artists, committing to a unified vision is essential for facilitating open, bidirectional communication and building trust between the partners. Clearly denoting research boundaries ensures that the scientific needs of the project are met while simultaneously welcoming space for the filmmakers' creativity, fostering a sense of ownership, and enhancing the final product
Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Both studies found that greater trust in government action was associated with willingness to accept EUA products 9,10 In a qualitative study on public understanding of medical countermeasures, Liu etal 11 assessed willingness to comply with protective actions during a hypothetical novel respiratory virus scenario The White House's adoption of Operation Warp Speed and promises of a vaccine by fall 2020 have undermined trust in any vaccine, whethe…
Use of a Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors Associated with African American Participation in Genomics Research
To explore the willingness to participate in genomics research among African Americans, we developed a technique specifically suited to a relaxed social setting. The “Qualitative Story Deck,” (QSD) is a gamified, structured elicitation technique that allows for the spontaneous creation of scenarios with variable attributes. We used the QSD to create research scenarios that varied on four details (race/ethnicity of the researcher, research goal, b…
Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics
AffiliationsDavid A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department…
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Objectives. To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of discussion across the total vaccine discourse on Twitter. Methods. Using 1.8 million vaccine-relevant tweets compiled from 2014 to 2017, we adapted an existing typology to Twitter data, first in a manual content analysis and then using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract 100 topics from the data set. Results. Manu…
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Measuring vaccine hesitancy, confidence, trust and flu vaccine uptake: Results of a national survey of White and African American adults
Malicious Actors on Twitter: A Guide for Public Health Researchers
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter. It is increasingly clear that some of their activities can have a negative impact on public health. This guide provides an overview of the types of malicious actors currently active on Twitter by highlighting the characteristic behaviors and strategies employed. It covers both automated accounts (including traditional spambots, social spambots, content polluters, and f…
You don't trust a government vaccine: Narratives of institutional trust and influenza vaccination among African American and white adults
Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll …
Breaking down the monolith: Understanding flu vaccine uptake among African Americans
Black adults are significantly less likely to be immunized for seasonal influenza when compared to Whites. This persistent disparity contributes to increased influenza-related morbidity and mortality in the African American population. Most scholarship on vaccine disparities has compared Whites and Blacks. Employing Public Health Critical Race Praxis, this study seeks to shift the focus to explore differences within the Black population. Utilizin…
Intersectional stigma among midlife and older Black women living with HIV
HIV-related stigma is a barrier to the prevention and treatment of HIV. For midlife and older Black women, the nature and intensity of HIV-related stigma may be compounded by their multiple marginalised social status based on gender, race, and age. We examined the perceptions and experiences of HIV-related stigma among midlife and older Black women living in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted semi-structure…
Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites
Place-based perceptions of the impacts of fracking along the Marcellus Shale
We examined community perspectives and experiences with fracking in Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA as part of a larger assessment to investigate the potential health impacts associated with fracking in neighboring Maryland, USA. In November 2013, we held two focus groups with community residents who had been impacted by fracking operations and conducted field observations in the impacted areas. Employing grounded theory, we conducted qualit…
Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll …
You don't trust a government vaccine: Narratives of institutional trust and influenza vaccination among African American and white adults
Place-based perceptions of the impacts of fracking along the Marcellus Shale
We examined community perspectives and experiences with fracking in Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA as part of a larger assessment to investigate the potential health impacts associated with fracking in neighboring Maryland, USA. In November 2013, we held two focus groups with community residents who had been impacted by fracking operations and conducted field observations in the impacted areas. Employing grounded theory, we conducted qualit…
Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Objectives. To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of discussion across the total vaccine discourse on Twitter. Methods. Using 1.8 million vaccine-relevant tweets compiled from 2014 to 2017, we adapted an existing typology to Twitter data, first in a manual content analysis and then using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract 100 topics from the data set. Results. Manu…
Malicious Actors on Twitter: A Guide for Public Health Researchers
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter. It is increasingly clear that some of their activities can have a negative impact on public health. This guide provides an overview of the types of malicious actors currently active on Twitter by highlighting the characteristic behaviors and strategies employed. It covers both automated accounts (including traditional spambots, social spambots, content polluters, and f…
Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics
AffiliationsDavid A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department…
Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Both studies found that greater trust in government action was associated with willingness to accept EUA products 9,10 In a qualitative study on public understanding of medical countermeasures, Liu etal 11 assessed willingness to comply with protective actions during a hypothetical novel respiratory virus scenario The White House's adoption of Operation Warp Speed and promises of a vaccine by fall 2020 have undermined trust in any vaccine, whethe…
Use of a Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors Associated with African American Participation in Genomics Research
To explore the willingness to participate in genomics research among African Americans, we developed a technique specifically suited to a relaxed social setting. The “Qualitative Story Deck,” (QSD) is a gamified, structured elicitation technique that allows for the spontaneous creation of scenarios with variable attributes. We used the QSD to create research scenarios that varied on four details (race/ethnicity of the researcher, research goal, b…
Place-based perceptions of the impacts of fracking along the Marcellus Shale
We examined community perspectives and experiences with fracking in Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA as part of a larger assessment to investigate the potential health impacts associated with fracking in neighboring Maryland, USA. In November 2013, we held two focus groups with community residents who had been impacted by fracking operations and conducted field observations in the impacted areas. Employing grounded theory, we conducted qualit…
Breaking down the monolith: Understanding flu vaccine uptake among African Americans
Black adults are significantly less likely to be immunized for seasonal influenza when compared to Whites. This persistent disparity contributes to increased influenza-related morbidity and mortality in the African American population. Most scholarship on vaccine disparities has compared Whites and Blacks. Employing Public Health Critical Race Praxis, this study seeks to shift the focus to explore differences within the Black population. Utilizin…
Intersectional stigma among midlife and older Black women living with HIV
HIV-related stigma is a barrier to the prevention and treatment of HIV. For midlife and older Black women, the nature and intensity of HIV-related stigma may be compounded by their multiple marginalised social status based on gender, race, and age. We examined the perceptions and experiences of HIV-related stigma among midlife and older Black women living in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted semi-structure…
Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites
Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll …
Measuring vaccine hesitancy, confidence, trust and flu vaccine uptake: Results of a national survey of White and African American adults
Malicious Actors on Twitter: A Guide for Public Health Researchers
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter. It is increasingly clear that some of their activities can have a negative impact on public health. This guide provides an overview of the types of malicious actors currently active on Twitter by highlighting the characteristic behaviors and strategies employed. It covers both automated accounts (including traditional spambots, social spambots, content polluters, and f…
You don't trust a government vaccine: Narratives of institutional trust and influenza vaccination among African American and white adults
Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics
AffiliationsDavid A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department…
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Objectives. To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of discussion across the total vaccine discourse on Twitter. Methods. Using 1.8 million vaccine-relevant tweets compiled from 2014 to 2017, we adapted an existing typology to Twitter data, first in a manual content analysis and then using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract 100 topics from the data set. Results. Manu…
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Both studies found that greater trust in government action was associated with willingness to accept EUA products 9,10 In a qualitative study on public understanding of medical countermeasures, Liu etal 11 assessed willingness to comply with protective actions during a hypothetical novel respiratory virus scenario The White House's adoption of Operation Warp Speed and promises of a vaccine by fall 2020 have undermined trust in any vaccine, whethe…
Use of a Qualitative Story Deck to Create Scenarios and Uncover Factors Associated with African American Participation in Genomics Research
To explore the willingness to participate in genomics research among African Americans, we developed a technique specifically suited to a relaxed social setting. The “Qualitative Story Deck,” (QSD) is a gamified, structured elicitation technique that allows for the spontaneous creation of scenarios with variable attributes. We used the QSD to create research scenarios that varied on four details (race/ethnicity of the researcher, research goal, b…
LetsTalkShots: Personalized vaccine risk communication
Introduction Vaccine hesitancy is a global health threat undermining control of many vaccine-preventable diseases. Patient-level education has largely been ineffective in reducing vaccine concerns and increasing vaccine uptake. We built and evaluated a personalized vaccine risk communication website called LetsTalkShots in English, Spanish and French (Canadian) for vaccines across the lifespan. LetsTalkShots tailors lived experiences, credible so…
Evaluation of online videos to engage viewers and support decision-making for Covid-19 vaccination: How narratives and race/ethnicity enhance viewer experiences
Background Vaccine hesitancy has hampered the control of COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Methods We conducted a national internet-based, quasi-experimental study to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine informational videos. Participants received an informational animated video paired with the randomized assignment of (1) a credible source (differing race/ethnicity) and (2) sequencing of a personal narrative before or after the video address…
Production of vaccination videos in India: Learnings from a science-art partnership
When projects require close collaborations between scientists and artists, committing to a unified vision is essential for facilitating open, bidirectional communication and building trust between the partners. Clearly denoting research boundaries ensures that the scientific needs of the project are met while simultaneously welcoming space for the filmmakers' creativity, fostering a sense of ownership, and enhancing the final product
Using WhatsApp for vaccine promotion in low- and middle-income countries: Practitioner-informed perspectives
BOX The combination of WhatsApp’s widespread use in low- and middle-income countries and array of low-cost messaging and data features suggests that the platform has great potential for health communication applications, including for vaccine promotion
More work for Ashas? Exploring the role of whatsapp messaging and community health work in urban slum areas of Varanasi, India
India’s community health workers (CHWs) have taken on an onerous set of responsibilities for the welfare of their clients across a variety of health domains, including providing modern contraception for family planning, promoting childhood vaccinations, and enhancing pregnant women’s nutritional outcomes. Governments have also added technology to this mix under the assumption that new digital tools can relieve the work burdens. Through interviews…
Medicine (14 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (14 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Vaccination (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public health (5 works)