Vaccinology in Africa Master’s Level Courses
Day 1: Principles of Vaccinology
- Introduction to Vaccinology
- Vaccine Immunology
- Veterinary vaccine development: some major needs
- Poxvirus diseases of livestock
- HPV vaccines
- Polio immunization and eradication strategies today: successes and set backs
- African swine fever vaccines
- Developing a field trial site
- Nutrition and vaccine responses
Day 2: Vaccine technologies & their development
- Maternal immunisation
- Vaccine technologies: Proteins, adjuvants, vectors and VLPs
- Progress with pneumococcal vaccines
- Foot and mouth disease vaccines
- African swine fever vaccines
- Non-specific effects of vaccines
- How to value vaccines?
- Immunomonitoring in endemic areas – tutorial session
Day 3: Major Vaccine Targets
- HIV vaccines
- Malaria vaccines
- Tuberculosis vaccines
- Progress with meningococcal vaccines
- Vaccines for enteric pathogens
- Influenza vaccines
- Ebola, Lassa and outbreak pathogen vaccines
- Workshop on vaccine design
Day 4: Vaccine Development and Clinical Trials
- New vaccine vectors and VLPs
- Rift Valley Fever and MERS vaccines
- Vaccine manufacturing
- Vaccine development in Africa: preclinical to field trials
- Vaccination against East Coast Fever and CBPP
- Dengue and Zika vaccines
- Undertaking field trials of new vaccines
- An industrial perspective on vaccine development, especially for neglected diseases
- Laboratory and field site visit
Day 5: Vaccine Development in Developing Countries
- Vaccine trial design and Controlled Human Malaria Infection studies in Africa
- Yellow fever and other vaccine R&D at Institut Pasteur, Dakar
- Livestock vaccines for Africa: a manufacturing perspective
- Public health and vaccines: a WHO perspective
- Statistical analysis of vaccine trials
- Veterinary vaccine development at ILRI, Nairobi
- Accelerating vaccine research in Africa
- Practical, regulatory and ethical issues in vaccine development & deployment in African settings
Confirmed speakers:
Adrian Hill, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Allan Saul, GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
Antoine Diatta, Institut Pasteur, Dakar
Andrew Pollard, Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford
Andrew Prentice, MRC Unit The Gambia
Baptiste Dungu, MCI Santé Animale, Morocco
Beate Kampmann, MRC Unit The Gambia
Bryan Charleston, Pirbright Institute
Carla Cerami, MRC Unit The Gambia
Chris Netherton, Pirbright Institute
Ed Clark, MRC Unit The Gambia
Frédéric Tangy, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Helen Fletcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jayne Sutherland, MRC Unit The Gambia
Mahamadou Thera, University of Bamako
Samuel Harrison, Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana
Sarah Gilbert, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Umberto d'Alessandro, MRC Unit The Gambia
Vish Nene, ILRI, Nairobi