Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar, "Time to change a paradigm: non-specific effects of vaccines"

May 23, 2019 (Thu) | 4:00 PM -5:00 PM
James H. Clark Center, 318 Campus Drive, Seminar Room S360 : Stanford, CA

Refreshments to be served at 3:45 PM; seminar begins at 4:00 PM. Unknown to most people, vaccines were never tested for their effects on overall health before being introduced. Dr. Benn's population-based epidemiological studies in one of the world’s poorest countries, Guinea-Bissau, have now revealed that this assumption is too simplistic. In this setting, with a very high infectious disease mortality, it became clear that vaccines not only protect against the target infection, they also affect the susceptibility to other infections. The implications are far-reaching: hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved every year in low-income countries and morbidity and health expenditure could be reduced significantly in high-income countries, simply by using the existing vaccines smarter.

Department:  BioX

Contact: Cici Huber | 6507257472 | chuber@stanford.edu

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