Workshop and Symposium: Vaccinology for Clinical and Public Health Practice (Faridabad, India)

18 – 21 November 2019

Vaccine

The 4-day event includes a policy symposium on 18 November followed by a 3-day vacinnology workshop. Explore topics such as resource mobilisation for national immunisation programmes and use of evidence to inform vaccine policy development at the policy symposium with the regional country representatives. On the other hand, the workshop will include lectures, hands-on exercises as well as discussions led by leading faculty in the field such as London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP).

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Event Details

Date: 18-21 November 2019

Venue: Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) Faridabad, India

Objectives

To learn about:

  • Power of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases
  • Good practices in vaccines research and policy making
  • Importance of multi-disciplinary skills in prioritising and implementing vaccine programmes

Who Should Attend?

  • Policymakers
  • Researchers
  • Heath professionals
  • Anyone who is interested in learning more about how vaccines work and conducting clinical and economic assessments among other topics.

Course Outline

Policy Symposium (18 November 2019)

  • Decision making and resource mobilization for the national immunisation program
  • Regional and global initiatives to support introduction of vaccines
  • Emerging vaccines issues in Asia
  • Technical capacity and using evidence to inform vaccine policy development
  • Way forward

Workshop (19-21 November 2019)

  • Epidemiological concepts related to vaccination
  • Vaccine efficacy
  • Vaccine trials – phase I, II, III and safety
  • Surveillance and burden estimation
  • Influenza virus for vaccine
  • Modelling vaccine preventable diseases
  • Post-licensure evaluation
  • Economics of vaccination
  • Statistical and reporting issues related to vaccine trials
  • Vaccine acceptance
  • Herd immunity and other indirect effects of vaccination
  • Getting vaccines to where needed

Registration

Limited seats available, register by 18 October, 2019.

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