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World Immunisation Week activities will culminate with a hybrid seminar on ‘Maternal participation in vaccine trials’, chaired by ¶Ù°ù Luisa Enria from LSHTM.

​​Pregnant and breastfeeding women are often automatically excluded from global vaccine research, development, and deployment during epidemics, despite being at elevated risk.  

​Through case studies from the Ebola vaccine trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, ¶Ù°ù  (KU Leuven & Harvard) and Sandrena Fischer (Ethox Centre, Oxford) will discuss contested decisions about whether to include or exclude pregnant women from potentially life-saving prophylaxis during vaccine trials, and examine the impacts on women’s lives of vaccine trials and of the deployment of emergency-use vaccines during health emergencies.​ 

Speakers

¶Ù°ù , KU Leuven & Harvard 

Ethox Centre, Oxford