In episode 14, our host, Associate Professor Nigel Crawford, speaks to Dr Bruce Gellin. Bruce is the President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington. The Sabin Vaccine Instituteâs mission is to make vaccines more accessible, enable innovation and expand immunisation across the globe. Bruce took up this role in 2017, prior to this serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the National Vaccine Program Office at the US Department of Health and Human Services where
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he served as technical and policy advisor to the WHO, focusing on influenza vaccines and global issues of vaccine hesitancy. Bruce has also worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), consulted for GAVI and is one of Americaâs principle spokespeople on vaccines and immunisations. He and Nigel discuss the following in the context of vaccine confidence:
â˘The recent halting of the Oxford Astrazeneca trial and how the system that is in place did exactly what is supposed to
â˘âThe Cutter Incidentâ and the ongoing impact this has had on vaccine safety, particularly from the manufacturing perspective
â˘The vast importance of ensuring immunisation providers understand the vaccine development process, as if they donât understand it and are sceptical this can have a huge impact on vaccine uptake
â˘The importance of open disclosure in the vaccine development pathway
â˘How the Sabin Vaccine Institute is meeting the challenge of vaccine hesitancy
â˘Sabinâs âBoostâ program for healthcare workers
â˘How vaccines are monitored once they are in use, also called phase IV surveillance
Links:
The Sabin Vaccine Institute
https://www.sabin.org
The Conversation: Halting the Oxford vaccine trial doesnât mean itâs not safe â it shows theyâre following the right process
https://theconversation.com/halting-the-oxford-vaccine-trial-doesnt-mean-its-not-safe-it-shows-theyre-following-the-right-process-145837
The Cutter Incident by Paul Offit
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300126051/cutter-incident
Sabin Vaccine Institute: Immunization Advocates
https://www.immunizationadvocates.org
Sabin Vaccine Institute: Boost
https://boostcommunity.org/
The Lancet: Mapping global trends in vaccine confidence and investigating barriers to vaccine uptake: a large-scale retrospective temporal modelling study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31558-0/fulltext
The Lancet: It is time to get serious about vaccine confidence
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31603-2/fulltext
