Helen Bedford RN, RHV, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPH, FiHV

Professor of Children’s Health, Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

20262025

With a background as a health visitor, vaccination issues have been the major focus of Helen’s research and teaching for the past 40 years (!). She has conducted research into public and health professionals’ knowledge and attitudes to vaccines including new, established and new uses for established vaccines, and in the determinants of vaccine uptake. Helen is co-theme lead in the NIHR funded Health Protection Research Unit in Vaccines and Immunisation. https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/nihr-hpru-vaccines-immunisation Helen contributes to immunisation training for health care professionals locally and nationally and frequently discusses vaccination issues in the media. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/6707-helen-bedford Helen is a director of the UCL master’s programme in Paediatrics and Child Health. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/study/postgraduate-taught-programmes