Matthew Motta
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Matthew Motta, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

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Biography

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management at Boston University's School of Public Health.

Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Political Science (American Politics, Research Methods) at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. Before that, I was a Science of Science Communication postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania). I was also based at the Yale Law School, where I was an affiliated postdoctoral scholar at the Cultural Cognition Project.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, where I was also a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. My research investigates the social and political determinants of anti-science attitudes, and assesses their health policy consequences. I then aim to use insights from this work to devise (and evaluate the effectiveness of) strategic communication efforts to correct health misinformation, and promote vaccine uptake.

Education

  • University of Minnesota, PhD Field of Study: Political Science
  • Wesleyan University, BA Field of Study: Government

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHPM760

Publications

  • Published on 3/1/2023

    Motta M. The pre-political origins and policy consequences of environmental justice concern. Politics Life Sci. 2023 Mar; 41(2):182-199. PMID: 36880544.

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  • Published on 2/20/2023

    Motta M, Callaghan T, Lunz-Trujillo K, Lockman A. Erroneous Consonance. How inaccurate beliefs about physician opinion influence COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine. 2023 Mar 17; 41(12):2093-2099. PMID: 36822967.

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  • Published on 2/2/2023

    Motta M. Is partisan conflict over COVID-19 vaccination eroding support for childhood vaccine mandates? NPJ Vaccines. 2023 Feb 02; 8(1):5. PMID: 36732345.

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  • Published on 11/23/2022

    Goidel, Kirby, Timothy Callaghan, David J. Washburn, Tasmiah Nuzhath, Julia Scobee, Abigail Spiegelman, and Matt Motta. Physician Trust in the News Media and Attitudes toward COVID-19. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, & Law. 2022.

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  • Published on 11/9/2022

    Salil Benegal & Matt Motta. Overconfident, Resentful, and Misinformed: How Racial Animus Motivates Confidence in False Beliefs. Social Science Quarterly. 2022.
  • Published on 10/25/2022

    Motta M. The Correlates & Public Health Consequences of Prospective Vaccine Hesitancy among Individuals Who Received COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters in the U.S. Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Oct 25; 10(11). PMID: 36366300.

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  • Published on 10/25/2022

    Matt Motta. The Correlates & Public Health Consequences of Prospective Vaccine Hesitancy Among Individuals who Received COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters in the U.S. Vaccines. 2022.

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  • Published on 10/1/2022

    Kobayashi, Yoshiharu, Christopher Howell, Tobias Heinrich, & Matt Motta. Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from global dyadic survey. Social Science & Medicine. 2022.

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  • Published on 9/6/2022

    Kobayashi Y, Howell C, Heinrich T, Motta M. Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from global dyadic survey. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Sep 06; 311:115346. PMID: 36108562.

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  • Published on 5/11/2022

    Sylvester S, Motta M, Trujillo KL, Callaghan T. Vaccinating across the aisle: using co-partisan source cues to encourage COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the ideological right. J Behav Med. 2022 May 11; 1-13. PMID: 35543897.

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