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22 December 2015
Christine Benn held a public lecture November 30th on vaccines. This took place at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Watch the lecture here if you missed her inspiring introduction to vaccines. NB the lecture is in Danish.
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21 December 2015
USA's second largest news paper, The Wall Street Journal, has chosen Sissel-Jo Gazan's novel "The Arc of the Swallow" as one of the best mysteries of 2015.
Here is a link to the book list from The Wall Street Journal.
Read all about t...
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20 November 2015
Christine Benn is giving a public lecture on vaccines at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Please feel free to participate.
NB. The lecture is in Danish.
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13 November 2015
European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) is taking place this week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Prof. Christine Benn was invited to give one of the prestigous plenary talks at the confere...
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10 November 2015
The BCG rural study will study the effect of BCG and OPV on early infant mortality and morbidity. All children will receive a home visit by a study nurse shortly after birth.
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9 November 2015
The Optimmunize consortium had a satellite meeting in Guinea-Bissau from October 30-November 2, to discuss progress and further initiatives. Among the participants were Frank Shann (AU), Hilton Whittle (UK), Tobias Kollman, Eleanor Fish and Nell...
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28 October 2015
See the job advert on the website of Statens Serum Institut.
Deadline 8 November 2015
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27 October 2015
See the job advert on the website of Statens Serum Institut.
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20 October 2015
CVIVA søger statistikere, læger, epidemiologer og kandidater i folkesundhedsvidenskab til forskningsprojekter om de uspecifikke effekter af vacciner.
Læs op jobopslagene på Statens Serum Instituts hjemmeside.
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20 October 2015
Find jobopslaget på Statens Serum Instituts hjemmeside.
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19 October 2015
In April the 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) took place in Copenhagen. Michael Jackson interviewed Peter Aaby on film about his involvement in Bandim Health Project.
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19 October 2015
On October 14 the youth organisation Conexão Lusófona for Portugeuse speaking, young people published an article abouth Bandim Health Project's decades long work in Guinea-Bissau.
Read the article on their website.
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1 October 2015
In an article and video from Odense University Hospital (OUH)/University of Southern Denmark (SDU) professor Christine Benn explains in Danish the positive unintended effects of MMR vaccine.
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23 June 2015
In 2013 we conducted a follow-up study on children who at birth had been randomised to neonatal vitamin A supplementation (NVAS) or placebo. In the children now aged 8-10 years, the effect of NVAS on atopy was analysed with skin prick tests and inter...
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23 June 2015
Peter Aaby, ”The Stubborn Man” was appointed Honorary Doctor at Nova - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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18 June 2015
In rural Guinea-Bissau we found that only 52% of 15,911 BCG-vaccinated children had developed a vaccination scar. In the scar positive group mortality was 52% (10-74%) lower than in the scar negative group during the first year of life and 26% (4-44%...
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18 June 2015
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1 June 2015
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22 April 2015
The Arc of the Swallow by Sissel-Jo Gazan published in the USA accompanied by a starred review in Publishers Weekly
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22 April 2015
Ton Nolan acclaims "The Arc of the Swallow" by Sissel-Jo Gazan in Wall Street Journal
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1 April 2015
In Guinea-Bissau we found that during a period when the manufacturer experienced slow growth rate of the BCG vaccine, the BCG vaccine was actually much better at inducing a BCG scar and a positive tuberculin skin test response.
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30 March 2015
The danish crime novel "The Arc of the Swallow" by Sissel-Jo Gazan will be published in the US on April 7.
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3 March 2015
In a Danish register-based study we found that MMR vaccination was associated with a 22% reduced rate of hospital contacts related to laboratory-confirmed infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).