Links to Useful Information about Vaccines & Global Health

• G-FINDER is a survey of global investment into R&D of new products for neglected diseases. The G-FINDER report discusses how funding platform technologies like those being pursued by Global Vaccines can deliver a high health impact for a relatively modest investment of resources. Among the conclusions of the report are that advances in platform technologies offer high impact, since they are by their nature applicable across many neglected diseases.

• There is a compassionate case for developing effective new vaccine technologies that will prevent disease.  However, vaccines value to global health goes beyond direct effects on saving lives.  Click an Adobe icon below if you would like a copy of Dr. David E. Bloom and colleagues' related articles, “Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa” and "Value of Vaccination."

The US Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains an online source for credible health information (www.cdc.gov).  CDC also guards against international disease transmission, with personnel stationed in more than 25 countries outside the U.S.  Clicking on the CDC logo will take you directly to the CDC Vaccines & Immunizations home page.

The mission of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) is the attainment of “a world in which all people at risk are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases".  Clicking on the WHO logo will take you directly to the IVB home page.

According to the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Global Health Series, edited by Carol A. Dahl and Tadataka Yamada, "focuses on the health conditions that affect people living in the developing world, and it highlights some of the areas that require attention if these conditions are either to be brought under control or eradicated." Clicking on the image will take you directly to Global Health series table of contents.