Maternal participation in vaccine trials
World Immunisation Week activities will culminate with a hybrid seminar on ‘Maternal participation in vaccine trials’, chaired by Dr Luisa Enria from LSHTM.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women are often automatically excluded from global vaccine research, development, and deployment during epidemics, despite being at elevated risk.
Through case studies from the Ebola vaccine trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, Dr Lys Alcayna- Stevens (KU Leuven & Harvard) and Sandrena Fischer (Ethox Centre, Oxford) will discuss contested decisions about whether to include or exclude pregnant women from potentially life-saving prophylaxis during vaccine trials, and examine the impacts on women’s lives of vaccine trials and of the deployment of emergency-use vaccines during health emergencies.
Speakers
Dr Lys Alcayna- Stevens, KU Leuven & Harvard
Sandrena Fischer, Ethox Centre, Oxford
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