Welcome to ADVAC

ADVAC is a two-week training programme for decision-makers, including academia, industry, governmental and non-governmental agencies. The Course aims to facilitate critical decision-making in vaccinology by providing participants with a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of vaccinology (immunology, vaccine development, clinical trials, regulatory processes, vaccine-specific issues including new vaccines, vaccination strategies and policies, programme implementation, humanitarian emergencies, social, economic, political and ethical issues, financing, and communications…).

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PRESENTATIONS 2014

Opening - Definition of the course objectives - Paul-Henri Lambert, Director

SESSION 1 - THE MULTIFACETED NATURE OF VACCINOLOGY

Opening Lecture - Impact of Vaccination on disease epidemiology - Roy Anderson

Access to cost-effective vaccination in GAVI countries and at global level - Stefano Malvoti

Public and media perception of vaccination - David Salisbury

Role of DC vaccine industry for meeting global needs - Suresh Jadhav

Development and production of vaccines for global use: the role of vaccine industry - Luis Jodar


SESSION 2 - HOW VACCINES WORK

How are vaccine responses elicited? What a vaccinologist should know about the basic aspects of immunological responses a-B-cell responses. - Claire-Anne Siegrist
(including T-cell responses)

Use and limitations of correlates of immunity in vaccinology - Pollard

Immunological basis for responses to mucosal vaccines - Adam Finn

Vaccines and Immunological memory (quizz and general discussion) - Claire-Anne Siegrist

SPECIAL LECTURE:
Vaccine-induced immunological memory - Rafi Ahmed

SESSION 3 - DECISION-MAKING IN VACCINE RESEARCH AND PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

How do vaccines cause adverse events? - Neal Halsey

Vaccines adjuvants - Martin Friede

Narcolepsy - Hanna Nohynek

From pre-clinical research to vaccine development - Georges Thiry

Advances in vaccine and immunization technologies - Cristina Cassetti

SPECIAL LECTURES: NEW VACCINES IN DEVELOPMENT

HIV vaccines - Brigitte Autran

TB vaccines - David Lewis

Pertussis vaccines - Scott Halperin


SESSION 4 - ASSESSING VACCINES IN CLINICAL TRIALS (I)

Clinical Trials: an overview of issues to be considered - Myron Levine

Lessons from pitfalls experienced in clinical trials and in the registration process - Luc Hessel

Clinical trials: role of DSMB - Penny Heaton

Assessing herd protection - John Clemens

Introduction to statistical aspects of clinical trials (i) - Peter Smith


SESSION 5 - VACCINE SAFETY - ASSESSMENT OF ADVERSE EFFECTS

Lessons from previous adverse effects of vaccination and Assessment of causal relationships - Neal Halsey

Immunology safety of vaccination (autoimmune and allergic diseases) - Paul-Henri Lambert

Population-based post-licensure surveillance - Andrews

Immunization safety in developping country vaccination programs - Philippe Duclos

Risk communication an overview - Noni MacDonald


SESSION 6 - ASSESSING VACCINES IN CLINICAL TRIALS (II)
Introduction to stat. aspects of clinical trials (ii) - Peter Smith

SESSION 7 - ETHICAL ISSUES

Ethical considerations in clinical trials of vaccines - C. Slack

Placebo versus comparator vaccine in clinical trials - Pieter Neels

Ethics and regulation for comparative effectiveness research - Hanna Nohynek

Ethics case malaria - Malaria case

Conclusions of group work - C. Slack


SESSION 8.1 - INTRODUCING NEW VACCINES INTO VACCINATION PROGRAMMES (1)

Role of disease burden assessment in the decision-making process - Brad Gessner

Health economics as a tool in analyzing Vaccine Policy Options - Mark Miller

Challenges and solutions in making evidence-based national vaccination polices and recommendations - Ph. Duclos

Understanding responses to polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines in infants and adults - D. Goldblatt

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines: overview - Dagan

Pneumococcal vaccines: role of viral infections, ecological aspects, and issues related to adult vaccination (including protein vaccines) - Klugman

The MenA-conjugate experience - Greenwood

Present approaches towards group B and multivalent Meningococcal vaccines - Del Giudice

SESSION 8.2 - INTRODUCING NEW VACCINES INTO VACCINATION PROGRAMMES (2)

Understanding vaccine responses in the elderly - Richard Aspinall

Influenza biology , new vaccines and vaccination strategies for different age groups - Kathy Neuzil

Success and challenges with Rotavirus vaccines - Umesh Parashar


SPECIAL LECTURE:

The population biology of bacterial pathogens and its importance for vaccination strategies - Richard Moxon

The challenge of malaria vaccines and of their potential introduction - Vasee Moorthy

TUESDAY 20 MAY - Small Group Session
1 - Tdap Material
2 - HPV
3 - malaria
4 - pneumo
5 - Rotavirus
6 - Influenza
7 - MenA: Other docs


SESSION 9 - SELECTING APPROPRIATE VACCINATION STRATEGIES

Vaccination in pregnancy - Janet Englund

Vaccination in early life - Claire-Anne Siegrist

Vaccination schedule: Past, present and future - Is there some rationale? - Edwin Asturias

History of Vaccines and Vaccination - Stanley Plotkin


PLOTKIN LECTURE:
systems biology and vaccination: Aderem

WEDNESDAY 21 MAY - Worshops
1 - Vaccination-eRegistries - Kari johanssen
2 - Assessing Vaccines in DCs - Wilson-Beattie
3 - Nitags
4 - Clinical Vaccinology - Siegrist-Diana

Vaccination in immune-compromised individuals - Claire-Anne Siegrist

SPECIAL LECTURES: NEW VACCINES

CMV vaccines in development - Stanley Plotkin

HPV vaccines - Margaret Stanley

Prospects for dengue and JE vaccines - Hal Margolis

Introduction of rabies vaccines into immunization programs - Deborah Briggs


ELIMINATION OR ERADICATION STRATEGIES?

Polio, focusing on new strategies - Roland Sutter

Measles and rubella - Peter Strebel

Introducing the ADVAC alumni network and the ADVAC community - Josette Najjar