
Kevin van Zandvoort
@kevinvzandvoort
Epidemiologist @LSHTM | @CMMID_LSHTM
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07-06-2011 20:53:04
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🆕 in BMC Medicine from Global Health Economics Centre and CMMID colleagues, and others. ⬇️


🎉Happy 2024! 🎉 We are back and looking forward to our first seminar of 2024. We are delighted to welcome Robert Verity from Imperial College London who will speak about his work on #malaria genomics. 🗓️ 10 January 2024 ⏲️ 13.00 - 14.00 GMT 🔗 bit.ly/48kCu7S


3 doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine prevents pneumonia - # 1 killer of children globally But it’s one of the most expensive vaccines UK is the only country using 2-doses Our Comment in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Are 2 doses enough? thelancet.com/journals/lanin…


Pneumococcus mainly affects the young & elderly but factors like over overcrowding & malnutrition in displaced populations can make things worse. Kevin van Zandvoort thinks we can reimagine Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines to be more effective than before. 📰lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/exp…




