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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Adam Finn

Professor of Paediatrics

University of Bristol, UK

 

Adam Finn is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Bristol and honorary consultant in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Adam leads the Bristol Vaccine Centre, which conducts clinical vaccine trials and studies in both children and adults and conducts epidemiological studies of vaccine preventable infectious diseases. A particular focus of the group is understanding the mucosal immunology that underlies many population-wide vaccine indirect effects through impact on transmission.

Adam was formerly President of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Chair of the European Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation of the World Health Organisation and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (the UK NITAG).
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