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Useful Vaccine-related Web Links

The Vaccine Community:

• International Society for Vaccines (ISV): "an organization that engages, supports, and sustains the professional goals of a diverse membership in all areas relevant to vaccines."
• Vaxperts: A web-based network of vaccine experts based on records of peer-reviewed vaccine publications.

Vaccine Basics:

• Vaccine in Wikipedia
• Understanding vaccine: what they are, how they work (PDF)

Vaccine Updates:

• WHO: Vaccine Position Papers
• WHO: Vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccines and vaccination (PDF)
• The Jordan Report: Accelerated Development of Vaccines 2007 (PDF)
• The Jordan Report: Accelerated Development of Vaccines 2002 (PDF)
• Immunisation against infectious disease - the Green Book by UK Department of Health
• Key immunisation information about overseas travel - the Yellow Book by UK Department of Health
• Focus on: Vaccines - Progress & Pitfalls (Nature Reviews Microbiology, July 2007 Vol 5 No 7)

Souces for Vaccines and Immunization:

• WHO: Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
• WHO Europe: Vaccine-preventable Diseases and Immunization
• List of Vaccines used in United States
• The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) in USA FDA
• Vaccines Licensed for Immunization and Distribution in the US
• Vaccines and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Canada
• Canadian Immunization Guide (Seventh Edition, 2006)
• UK Vaccine Supply in UK NHS Immunisation
• NNii: National Network for Immunization Information
• Immunization Schedule for Childrent
• The Vaccine Page

Vaccine Manufacturers:

• EVM: European Vaccine Manufacturers
• Vaccine manufacturers collected in Vaccine Ontology

Vaccine Safety and Regulation:

• WHO Immunication Safety
• WHO: Vaccine Regulation
• The Vaccine Working Party (VWP) in European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
• The Health Protection Agency (HPA) in UK
• USA CDC: Vaccine Safety Office, Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)
• UK DH: Immunisation
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (developed by CDC and FDA in USA)
• The Brighton Collaboration: an international voluntary collaboration on the safety of human vaccines.

Vaccine Initiatives and Programs:

• WHO: Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR)
• Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS)
• GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation)
• Children's Vaccine Program at PATH
• CISID (The Centralized Information System on Infectious Diseases)
• USA CDC National Immunization Program (NIP)
• WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative
• WHO: The African AIDS Vaccine programme (AAVP)
• Hib Initiative

Vaccine Research and Funding Sources:

• NIH Vaccine Research Center
• USA NIAID Vaccine Research
• USA NIAID Biodefense Research Funding
• Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
• WHO: IVR Global Research Forum
• WHO: Database for Vaccine Clinical Trial Sites
• WHO: Calls for Vaccine Research Proposals
• Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation (VRF)

Pathogen/Disease Sources:

• WHO: Vaccine-preventable diseases
• WHO Europe: Vaccine-preventable Diseases and Immunization
• WHO: Selection of Diseases in IVT Portfolio
• USA NIAID Category A, B & C Priority Pathogens
• USA CDC Bioterrorism Agents / Diseases (Category A, B, and C)