Immunizations

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• Business: Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals: Pharmaceuticals: Biopharmaceuticals: Vaccines  (28)
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• WHO - Immunization. Vaccines and Biologicals   - The World Health Organization's programme comprises 5 departments : Quality Assurance and Safety of Biologicals (QSB), Vaccine Development (VAD), Vaccine Assessment and Monitoring (VAM), Access to Technologies (ATT) and Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).

• Critical Issues in Oral Vaccine Development - Discussion about crossregulatory networks that control how an immune response develops after oral vaccination.
• Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) - Aims to boost immunization rates and prevent disease, with special regard to hepatitis B.
• Institute for Vaccine Safety (IVS) - Provides up-to-date information and links on specific vaccine safety issues as they arise in the media.
• International Vaccine Institute (IVI) - An international organization based in Seoul and devoted to bringing vaccines against cholera, shigellosis, and typhoid fever to the poor populations.
• National Network for Immunization Information - Provides science-based immunization information to parents, healthcare professionals, media, policymakers and the public. Includes state requirements for the USA.
• Sabin Vaccine Institute - A non-profit organization that promotes advances in vaccine development, delivery and distribution focusing on polio, rubella, rotavirus, and hookworm. Provides awards and organizes symposia
• Sealy Center for Vaccine Development (SCVD) - Fosters interdisciplinary collaborations in the areas of research, policy, and education to facilitate the translation of laboratory findings to prevention of infectious diseases.
• US–Indo Vaccine Research Program - Details of a bilateral program involving the USA and India in laboratory-based research, epidemiological studies, field trials, quality control, and delivery of vaccines. A department of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
• Vaccine - A journal for academics and workers in the field of vaccination. Relevant topics range from basic research through to applications, safety and legislation.