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Melinda Mills at European Parliament’s Special Committee on COVID-19 pandemic
18 Dec 2020

An expert’s opinion: An interview with Melinda Mills on the behavioural factors underlying COVID-19

“Transparency is the only thing that builds trust,” says Melinda Mills, Director of the LCDS and lead author of the British Academy and Royal Society report on ,COVID-19 vaccine deployment. The report offers policy recommendations for dealing with the spread of misinformation about the vaccine, including enabling the public to spot misinformation and raising the accountability of media companies.

Study figure
17 Nov 2020

The Linear Link: Deriving Age-Specific Death Rates from Life Expectancy – new article in Risks

The prediction of human longevity based on forecasting life expectancy offers multiple advantages, but the reconstruction of age-specific mortality is more challenging. A new article led by Marius Pascariu and coauthored by José Manuel Aburto, Newton Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology, proposes the Linear Link model to tackle this challenge.

Man receiving COVID vaccine
10 Nov 2020

COVID-19 vaccine: reliable communications needed to beat ‘infodemic’ of misinformation

A coordinated programme to combat anti-vaxx misinformation and encourage confidence in a COVID-19 vaccine is essential if a take-up target of eight in ten people in the UK is to be achieved, according to Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Director Professor Melinda Mills, author of a report published today by the British Academy and the Royal Society for the SET-C (Science in Emergencies Tasking: COVID-19) group.