Dr Alessandro Diana is a Swiss Medical Federation Specialist in Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases. He trained in clinical vaccinology at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva with Professor Claire-Anne Siegrist, who founded the first chair of vaccinology in Europe.

For more than 10 years, Dr Diana has been working on vaccine hesitation involving a metacognitive approach using motivational interviewing techniques. Dr Diana is currently an expert member of INFOVAC, a public information platform on vaccines and coaching for health professionals.

Dr Diana is a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva and is involved in educational sciences. For the past 5 years, he has been involved in training health professionals in a metacognitive approach to vaccine hesitation.

Dr Diana’s research has been published in prestigious journals such as Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.