A global perspective on Vaccine Safety and Public Health: The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety

Folb, Peter I. ; Bernatowska , Ewa ; Chen, Robert ; Clemens, John ; Dodoo, Alex N. O. ; Ellenberg, Susan S. ; Farrington, C. Patrick ; Jacob John, T. ; Lambert, Paul-Henri ; MacDonald, Noni E. ; Miller, Elizabeth ; Salisbury, David ; Schmitt, Heinz-J. ; Siegrist, Claire-Anne ; Wimalaratne, Omala (2004) A global perspective on Vaccine Safety and Public Health: The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety American Journal of Public Health, 94 (11). pp. 1926-1931. ISSN 0090-0036

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Abstract

Established in 1999, the Global Advisory Committee onVaccine Safety advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on vaccine-related safety issues and enables WHOto respond promptly, efficiently, and with scientific rigor to issues of vaccine safety with potential global importance. The committee also assesses the implications of vaccine safety for practice worldwide and forWHOpolicies. We describe the principles on which the committee was established, its modus operandi, and the scope of the work undertaken, both present and future. We highlight its recent recommendations on major issues, including the purported link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism and the safety of the mumps, influenza, yellow fever, BCG, and smallpox vaccines as well as that of thiomersal-containing vaccines.

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