World Immunisation Week 2025 Podcast series
Vaccine Centre Spotlight on Em Prestige: Getting started in vaccine research
World Immunisation Week 2024 Podcasts
Responding to polio outbreaks – new vaccine, old foe
New episode on 22 April 2024
How do we detect and respond to polio outbreaks? And what role do novel oral vaccines play as we chase the ever elusive goal of eradication?
In this episode of our World Immunization Week series on ‘Responding to Outbreaks’, Dr Ed Parker from the LSHTM Vaccine Centre is joined by Professor Nick Grassly, Dr Isobel Blake, and Dr Laura Cooper from Imperial College London, and Professor Ed Clarke and Dr Larry Kotei from the MRC Unit in The Gambia at LSHTM.
We discuss recent phase 3 clinical trial of the novel oral poliovirus vaccine in The Gambia, the safety and immunogenicity use of the vaccine when used in outbreak response, and the first study exploring the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine against paralytic polio.
The use of vaccines in outbreak response
New episode on 24 April 2024
In this episode, the Vaccine Centre speaks to Ed Newman, Nadine Beckmann and Sophie Everest from the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, an innovative partnership between the UK Health Security Agency and LSHTM, funded with UK aid by the UK Department of Health and Social Care. The UK-PHRST is a key international partner in infectious disease outbreak detection, prevention, preparedness and response; operational research; and capacity strengthening. They discuss the benefits and challenges of vaccine roll-outs and what to do when vaccines aren’t readily available when responding to outbreaks in UK Official Development Assistance eligible countries across the world, and the importance of community engagement and trust to an effective outbreak response.
Why immunity is about relationships: an anthropological deep dive into outbreak response and vaccine engagement
New episode out on 26 April 2024
Assistant Professor Ben Kasstan-Dabush from the Department of Global Health & Development at LSHTM sits down with Student Liaison Officers Ashna Pillai and Hao Kai Tseng from the LSHTM Vaccine Centre to talk about vaccines and the relationships between parents, community, and health systems. Together, what we learned from outbreaks is the importance of centring relationships and building flexibility into immunisation programmes. We take an anthropological deep dive into issues around outbreak response and vaccine coverage through the explorations of Ben Kasstan-Dabush’s research.
Group A Streptococcus with Professor Shiranee Sriskandan
What is Group A Streptococcus? Why isn't there a vaccine? Who is at risk from infection?
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan from the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London sits down with Professor Beate Kampmann from the LSHTM Vaccine Centre to talk about Group A streptococcus and the work being done in her lab and beyond.
STI Vaccine Road Map: In conversation with Dr Sami Gottlieb (WHO)
In this podcast, Professor Beate Kampmann director of the LSHTM Vaccine Centre, sits down with Dr Sami Gottlieb from the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organisation (WHO) to hear more about the global road map on STI Vaccines.
World Immunization Week podcasts: April 2019
To celebrate World Immunization Week the Vaccine Centre at LSHTM produced a short podcast series to showcase the important work going on in Vaccine application, innovation and evaluation at the School and beyond.