vaccines
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Vaccine safety and equity: Q&A with Dr. Julie Bettinger
National Immunization Awareness Month is dedicated to the importance of vaccines and their vital role in preventing the spread of deadly diseases. Researchers at the Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute are committed to a world without vaccine-preventable diseases. They conduct research that includes laboratory science, clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, social…
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Targeted vaccines are needed to combat antimicrobial resistance
Ten million people — equivalent to approximately one-quarter of the Canadian population — are expected to die annually due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide by 2050. Researchers in Dr. Manish Sadarangani’s lab at the Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s argue that targeted vaccines are needed to help reduce such loss of life.
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International partnership supports vaccine research to prevent future outbreaks
Today (April 26, 2023), as part of National Immunization Awareness Week, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Canada’s minister of health, and the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, announced a new partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Coalition…
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