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Overview
What you will study
Vaccines are the most effective tool for prevention against many infectious diseases. The last two decades have been called a “golden age” in the development of vaccines. However, many of the vaccines licensed in this era have highly complex immunological, ecological and economic effects. Effective use of these vaccines requires a new generation of public health professionals with multi-disciplinary skills to be able to understand issues around the immunological mechanism, safety, efficacy, effectiveness, population impact, effects on microbiological ecology, delivery, cost-effectiveness and public trust of vaccines.
Participants of the Vaccinology for Public Health and Clinical Practice in the 21st century course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will learn about the immunological and epidemiological principles of vaccination, vaccine development, how to measure vaccine efficacy or effectiveness, and how vaccination influences disease transmission and herd immunity. We will also discuss basic health economic evaluation of vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Immunologic principles of vaccination
- Evaluating serological responses induced by vaccination
- Vaccine trials
- Clinical, virological, serological and internet-based disease surveillance
- Genetic and antigenic disease surveillance based on molecular epidemiology
- Inferring disease burden from surveillance data
- Selecting virus strains for influenza vaccines
- Infectious disease modeling and optimization of vaccination strategies
- Health economic evaluation of vaccination programs
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Communicating the risks and benefits of vaccines to the public
- Lessons learnt from the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
- Post-marketing vaccine safety and effectiveness surveillance
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
More details
- Please contact the university for more information about the application deadline.
Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Public Health View 236 other Short Courses in Public Health in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Accidents
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Early-stage public health and medical professionals and researchers with interests in multi-disciplinary skills of vaccinology are strongly encouraged to apply.
Tuition Fee
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International
3000 HKD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3000 HKD for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
3000 HKD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3000 HKD for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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