Human challenge models to advance vaccines against respiratory pathogens World Immunisation Week 2021
To mark World Immunisation Week 2021 from 24 to 30 April, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Vaccine Centre is hosting a series of webinars. The theme this year is ‘Vaccines Bring Us Closer’. Each day of the week we focus on an important area of vaccine research, science and debate bringing together experts in the field. We end the week with the Vaccine Centre Annual Lecture on 30 April.
In this event, we focus on the use of controlled human infection models to accelerate the development of the next generation of vaccines against bacterial and viral respiratory pathogens, such as pertussis and SARS-CoV-2. Dr Chris Chiu will discuss The COVID-19 human challenge model and Professor Robert Read will explore Advancing the development of improved vaccines against pertussis through a human challenge model .
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Doctors in India claimed variant is far more infectious and probably far more deadly than previous strains
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Epidemic Illusions: On the coloniality of global public health – Eugene Richardson in conversation Decolonising Global Health – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (DGH-LSHTM) and the LSHTM Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre invite you to a panel discussion centred around Eugene Richardson’s recent book Epidemic Illusions. While he mainly draws on his experience working on the front-line to combat the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, this insight on the coloniality of public health and the underlying inequities that exist, are relevant in the face of any global public health emergency. He asserts that the biggest epidemic he has encountered is not Ebola but the epidemic of illusions – transmitted by the coloniality of knowledge production.
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YouTube is pairing health experts up with an array of celebrities to talk about COVID-19 vaccines as part of its new public service announcement. This new PSA is born out of a collaboration between YouTube, the Vaccine Confidence Project and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and it s focused on providing people with reliable information about COVID-19 immunizations.
Google s video platform will focus on giving users information about how the vaccine was developed and tested – and what users can expect post-vaccination. As part of the new initiative, the company will run videos on its own platform, paid TV, radio and social media through July.
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Kent Covid variant already dominant in the UK and US and it is in 130 countries
Indian reports show it accounts for surging proportion of infections there
It is known to be faster-spreading than other strains of the virus
Not much is known about the Indian variant but it doesn t appear to be worse
India is in a state of crisis with hospitals overwhelmed and thousands dying