Benjamin Malo- Ph.D. Student - Medical Anthropology
- PhD Student at Université Laval
Benjamin Malo
- Ph.D. Student - Medical Anthropology
- PhD Student at Université Laval
Université Laval | Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval
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Introduction
I am a Ph.D. student in medical anthropology at Université Laval. My main research interests include vaccine hesitancy, complementary and alternative medicines, and the Internet. My current doctoral project focuses on the vaccination informational context in the era of the Web 2.0. More specifically, it focuses on the ways in which parents' reflexivity about vaccination and infectious diseases is modulated by online risk representations.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
May 2018 - present
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
Position
- Research Officer
Education
September 2021 - May 2026
September 2019 - May 2021
September 2016 - May 2019
Publications
Publications (15)
Canadians and Quebecers increasingly consult complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in parallel with biomedical providers. The close relationship between vaccine hesitancy and CAM use remains under explored in Western countries. We present the results of a qualitative study conducted among one of Quebec's most used CAM approache...
Health care providers' recommendations can play an important role in individuals' vaccination decisions. Despite being one of the most popular complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), naturopathy is understudied in relation to vaccination decisions. We sought to address this gap through this study of vaccination perspectives of naturopathy pra...
Objective:This study aimed to explore how virtual communities of mothers shape the informational habitus in the context of the intensive mothering ideology.
Background:Mothers’ involvement and dedication are perceived as essential to children’s development. Some mothers join virtual communities for health information to ensure that they are doing...
Objectives
Communication during a pandemic is key in ensuring adoption of preventive behaviours and limiting disease transmission. The aim of the study was to explore how communication specialists working in health and governmental institutions and healthcare professionals have communicated about COVID-19, and how different groups of the public hav...
Background
Health care providers’ knowledge and attitudes about vaccines are important determinants of their own vaccine uptake, their intention to recommend vaccines, and their patients’ vaccine uptake. This qualitative study’ objective was to better understand health care providers’ vaccination decisions, their views on barriers to COVID-19 vacci...
Background
Vaccination coverage needs to reach more than 80% to resolve the COVID-19 pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy, fuelled by misinformation, may jeopardize this goal. Unvaccinated older adults are not only at risk of COVID-19 complications but may also be misled by false information. Prebunking, based on inoculation theory, involves ‘forewarnin...
Background
Data on the modalities of disclosing genomic secondary findings (SFs) remain scarce. We explore cancer patients’ and the general public’s perspectives about disclosing genomic SFs and the modalities of such disclosure.
Methods
Sixty-one cancer patients (n = 29) and members of the public (n = 32) participated in eight focus groups in Mon...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), particularly naturopathy, has increased in popularity among the Quebec population. Simultaneously, vaccine hesitancy is gaining momentum worldwide. If this trend persists, vaccination rates could decrease and there could be a resurgence of many deadly illnesses. Scientific literature suggests that CAM p...
Background:
Data on the modalities of disclosing genomic secondary findings (SFs) remain scarce. We explore cancer patients’ and the general public’s perspectives about disclosing genomic SFs and the modalities of such disclosure.
Methods:
Sixty-one cancer patients (n=29) and members of the public (n=32) participated in eight focus groups in Montre...
