London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The Vaccine Centre at LSHTM will mark World Immunisation Week 2024 with a special focus on the role of vaccines in responding to outbreaks. 

Annual Lecture 

We are delighted to welcome Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert DBE, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford, to give the Vaccine Centre Annual Lecture 2024.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 demonstrated how unprepared we were to defend ourselves against a virus first identified in 1976. Work began on the development of vaccines against known outbreak pathogens, but in 2020 it was necessary to respond to ‘disease X’, which was spreading around the world at great speed. Post-pandemic, there is still much to be done to develop vaccines against the known and as yet unknown viruses that have the potential to cause a future outbreak or pandemic.

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Community engagement for vaccination in humanitarian settings: A view from the field 

This webinar will bring together experts with a wealth of experience in working on and delivering community engagement for vaccination across different contexts. We will explore what works in community engagement and the specific challenges to engaging communities in routine and emergency vaccination campaigns in humanitarian settings. In addition, our panelists will be asked to reflect on the current state of community engagement in the sector, including what is needed to further strengthen the evidence base, accelerate the investment and coordination to ensure that the voices and knowledge of people living in crisis are effectively integrated into the design and implementation of vaccination strategies. 

This event is co-organised by the LSHTM Vaccine Centre & Health in Humanitarian Crisis Centre, the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.

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Podcast series 

Three podcasts focus on vaccines in outbreak response

• Responding to polio outbreaks - new vaccine, old foe
• The use of vaccines in outbreak response ]
• Why immunity is about relationships: an anthropological deep dive into outbreak response and vaccine engagement 

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