Vaccines are one of the most effective public health measures available, saving some two to three million lives worldwide every year. However, in Europe where vaccine preventable disease almost disappeared, the public is now worried about the safety of the vaccine, limiting their use, resulting in outbreaks of preventable diseases like Measles. IMI’s Advance project, which concluded in March of 2019, brought together a large cross-section of European stakeholders to create a system and network to rapidly provide real world evidence on vaccine coverage, safety and effectiveness using existing health data in EU countries.

ADVANCE has built VAC4EU: a non-for profit legal entity that will implement the ADVANCE system and vision, and in this podcast we are joined by two members of the ADVANCE co-ordinating team responsible for its launch and rebranding.

Miriam Sturkenboom, ADVANCE’s Project Coordinator
Patrick Mahy, Scientific Institute of Public Health in Belgium

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