Author

Theresa Sommers

Observed name: Sommers, Theresa

Institution: Sabin Vaccine Institute

Observed institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, University of Massachusetts Boston, Sabin Vaccine Institute

ORCID: 0000-0001-7386-5732

Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-7386-5732

OpenAlex ID: A5047375378

Building trust and equity in vaccine communication through community engagement

2025 · Theresa Sommers, Meredith Dockery, et al. · Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics · 31

When nurses are also patients: Intimate partner violence and the health system as an enabler of women's health and agency in Johannesburg

2015 · Courtenay Sprague, Nataly Woollett, et al. · Global Public Health · 29

‘They can’t report abuse, they can’t move out. They are at the mercy of these men’: exploring connections between intimate partner violence, gender and HIV in South African clinical settings

2015 · Courtenay Sprague, Abigail M. Hatcher, et al. · Culture Health & Sexuality · 24

Analysing local-level responses to migration and urban health in Hillbrow: the Johannesburg Migrant Health Forum

2017 · Jo Vearey, Kirsten Thomson, et al. · BMC Public Health · 15

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of vaccinators about expanded programs on immunization: a cross-sectional study

2024 · Sunia Azhar, Laiba Rashid, et al. · Frontiers in Public Health · 12

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Shaping global vaccine acceptance with localized knowledge: a report from the inaugural VARN2022 conference

2023 · Talya Underwood, Kathryn L. Hopkins, et al. · BMC Proceedings · 10

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COVID-19 vaccines side effects among the general population during the pandemic: a cross-sectional study

2025 · Samana Zaidi, Hafsa Abdul Qayyum, et al. · Frontiers in Public Health · 7

Building a way forward: Enabling community voices to forge the path toward successful immunization for all

2024 · Nadia Peimbert-Rappaport, Kathryn L. Hopkins, et al. · Vaccine · 6

Southern Women at Risk: Narratives of Familial and Social HIV Risk in Justice-Involved U.S. Women in Alabama

2017 · Courtenay Sprague, Bharathi Radhakrishnan, et al. · Violence and Victims · 5

The second annual Vaccination Acceptance Research Network Conference (VARN2023): Shifting the immunization narrative to center equity and community expertise

2024 · Kathryn L. Hopkins, Gloria Lihemo, et al. · Vaccine · 3

Accelerating Evidence-Informed Vaccine Introductions: Lessons from the Hexavalent Early Adopters Workshop

2026 · Kathryn L. Hopkins, Sidy Ndiaye, et al. · Vaccines · 1

Optimizing decision-making, implementation, and monitoring to maximize the impact of the transition from pentavalent + IPV to hexavalent vaccine in Mauritania

2026 · Tene-Alima Essoh, Cheikh Tacko Diop, et al. · Vaccine X

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Innovative webinar-based training to support evidence-to-recommendation decision-making by national immunization technical advisory groups: multi-country experience with hexavalent vaccines

2026 · Lisandro Torre, Stephen C. Hadler, et al. · Vaccine

Building resilient and response-ready influenza vaccination programs for pandemic preparedness: a comparative analysis from five middle-income countries

2026 · Marissa Malchione, Theresa Sommers, et al. · BMC Health Services Research

Structural Determinants of Vaccination Uptake in High Zero-dose Burden Settings

2026 · Kaduru, Chijoke, Nwafia, Ebuka, et al. · Journal of ethnographic and qualitative research

“We Want To Be Free”: A Qualitative Examination of Migration as a Social Determinant of Health for Youth, Cross-Border Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa

2019 · Theresa Sommers

CDC Travelers’ Health Branch releases free, web-based training course Yellow Fever: Information for Health Care Professionals Advising Travelers.

2011 · Theresa Sommers, Mark Gershman · PubMed

Works count: 17

Citation count: 143

H-index: 7

I10-index: 6