The European Pharmaceutical Industry, in the guise of EFPIA, has a stranglehold on the European Commission in terms of policies for vaccination promotion and acquisition of healthcare data. Healthcare data is essential for Pharma to collect commercially useful realworld evidence of clinical illnesses and prescribing habits and trends.
Both campaigns are supported directly or indirectly by Pharma and have a remarkably similar approach: creating multiple similar internet platforms and putting the supposed views of citizens/patients at the forefront. Great production values – and sterile.
This post deals with vaccination promotion – a second will deal with the campaign to get you to insist on making your health data available to benefit all.
Your Guardian Angels
Many grants to Guardian Angels (pressure groups) are made through the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) which is jointly funded by EFPIA (the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations) and the European Union.
Let’s start with Vaccines and The Coalition for Life Course Immunisation (CLCI). “Life Course” is an all-embracing term that ensures that vaccination promotion covers all age groups.
This UK charity was set up in 2017, and has an office address in the leafy Cotswolds of southern England. It has six unpaid trustees. It provides a platform to facilitate discussion and promotion of increased awareness among health professionals, the public, policy makers and politicians, of the effectiveness of immunisation as a public health tool, of the importance of vaccination programmes for citizens of all ages, and of knowledge of issues and barriers around immunisation at all stages of life that need to overcome.
Their most recent accounts show an income of nearly £60,000 from three drug companies – Sanofi Pasteur, Pfizer and MSD – and the opaquely-funded Excellence in Pediatrics Institute (EiP).
EiP runs Vaccines Together, an initiative and online collaboration hub, targeting to increase vaccination coverage rates across Europe, and across all stages of life. companies operating in Europe.
Not to be confused with Vaccines Today funded solely by Vaccines Europe, a specialised group of EFPIA. Vaccines Europe members are major innovative research-based vaccine
Vaccines Europe sponsored CLCI’s recent report “Life Course Immunisation in an Era of Fake News”.
Then there is The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) funded by EFPIA directly and indirectly through IMI and separately by some pharmaceutical companies. “We help to inform the strategies and designs for immunization programmes so human and financial resources can be designed for and with the communities they serve. The VCP began by developing a system for early detection of public concerns about vaccines.”
The International Longevity Centre UK
in its latest annual return shows grants of >£430,000 from Pharma. A current project is about “Vaccine confidence in Central & Eastern Europe”.
“Getting to the root cause of vaccine hesitancy is key to strengthening people’s confidence and improving the low levels of uptake. This project has been made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer and is being produced in partnership with the Coalition for Life-Course Immunisation and the ILC Europe Network.”
Another European project is VITAL, Vaccinating Elderly for Healthy Ageing.
Sponsored by EFPIA and IMI, this claims:
“Today’s major challenge is to improve efficacy of vaccines to protect the growing ageing population against infectious diseases (ID). The VITAL project aims to address this challenge by assessing the ID burden and mechanisms of immunosenescence to provide evidence-based knowledge on vaccination strategies to establish healthy ageing.”
At the other end of the spectrum is ThinkYoung
The ThinkYoung Vaccine Coalition have created a Manifesto highlighting 10 recommendations for vital actions in the field of immunisation. On January 21st, 2020 the ThinkYoung Vaccine Coalition Manifesto was launched at the European Parliament in Brussels, in presence of over 40 policymakers.
Think Young Partners include Vaccines Today and Sanofi Pasteur.
The European Vaccine Initiative (EVI) is a leading European non-profit Product Development Partnership (PDP) that is supporting global efforts to develop effective and affordable vaccines against diseases of poverty and emerging infectious diseases. Partnered with European Pharmaceutical Companies, it receives financial support from IMI.
The one common factor in all of these pro-vaccine lobbying organisations is that their funding can be traced back to the Pharmaceutical Industries.
A name that crops up a lot is Gary Finnegan, a journalist but also an Ambassador for ThinkYoung, the Editor of Vaccines Today, the Editor in Chief for Break Dengue, a Member of Vaccines Together and a Board Member of the Coalition for Life Course Immunisation.
So for British readers – aren’t you glad for Brexit? Well Brexit may have in part been all about getting on this gravy train before the pesky Europeans. Now lets see how we can leverage NHS data – the best in the world.
To be continued.
People Acknowledgement
RxISK acknowledges that the experiences of those who have been harmed by medical treatments are the cornerstone on which it is built, and believes this should be the case for all of medicine.
See Black Robe, White Coat for more detail on this people acknowledgement
susanne says
Pfizer says :- catch them young. Create a little army of tiny Pfizer ‘scientists’
This on antibiotics but just as Pfizer is using children on mass to experiment on children with vaccines – they are already being primed for Pfizer’s antibiotic experiments.
‘And the next generation of scientists are already getting involved. The ‘Swab and Send’ initiative based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine encourages children to swab their homes, gardens and local areas to help scientists identify new antibiotic compounds.8 Indeed, the next antibiotic could be discovered thanks to a child who hasn’t even started school – if you’re looking for hope, look no further!’
Dr. David Healy says
Susanne
Do you have a link to this – its extraordinary
David
susanne says
David . Here is a link
NEWS & FEATURED STORIES/ Hope On The Horizon: Why It’s Not Too Late For Antimicrobials
04/10/2022
HOPE ON THE HORIZON: WHY IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR ANTIMICROBIALS
NEWS & FEATURED STORIES/ Hope On The Horizon: Why It’s Not Too Late For Antimicrobials
04/10/2022
Toby Cousens
Hospital Lead, Pfizer UK
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global threats facing society and urgent action is critical to mitigate its impact. Yet despite the major challenges we face in tackling this growing health threat, there is still hope: it’s not too late to turn the tide.
HE THREAT OF AMR IN CONTEXT
In a study published by The Lancet, researchers calculated an estimated 4.95 million deaths globally were associated with bacterial AMR in 2019 alone.1 And in the UK every year, at least 12,000 people die from AMR2 – roughly the same number of lives lost to breast cancer.
Whilst these statistics are shocking, we stand at a unique moment in time with the opportunity to take a huge step forward in our fight against AMR.
Firstly, reflecting on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we became acutely aware of the devastating consequences of an untreatable infection. Secondly, we have much better understanding that our own health relies on the health of those around us – people in our households, our communities, and even those living thousands of miles away. The pandemic has made the world feel smaller, more interconnected and more united, and this is a powerful force in the face of global public health threats like AMR.
THE RACE IS ON
Currently ‘superbugs’ are emerging faster than new antibiotics can reach the market, with no new class of antibiotics being developed since the 1980s.3 Many people in the field talk about a ‘discovery void’, but is this too simplistic?
A strong pipeline of new antibiotics is essential to tackle the rising tide of AMR and, from an industry and investor perspective, we recognise that we need work collaboratively to prioritise antimicrobial R&D. However, there is much more at play when it comes to the discovery of new medicines.
The journey from discovery to a clinically approved medicine is long and the failure rate is high. Developing new antimicrobials requires huge financial investment – in excess of $1 billion3 – and once approved are often used sparingly to support good stewardship. This creates a challenging dichotomy: needing to preserve public health, while making it difficult to recover the high costs associated with antimicrobial development. To solve this, we must re-think how we incentivise R&D.
IT’S TIME TO THINK DIFFERENTLY
Despite the huge economic and societal burden of AMR, global healthcare systems have been slow to fully recognise the value of antimicrobials, but this is changing. Traditional approaches to antimicrobial evaluation and reimbursement aren’t working and there is a clear need for innovative assessments to understand the total value of antimicrobials that may be left on a very high shelf until it’s needed.
Pioneering work in this area is already underway. Pfizer has partnered with NHS England, NICE and the UK government to pilot a world-first innovative reimbursement model for antimicrobials. This initiative is a first step in assessing the broader value that antibiotics bring to people and society through the ‘STEDI’ values:4
Spectrum: Benefits of being able to treat with a narrow-spectrum agent in some settings
Transmission: Benefits from avoiding the spread of infection
Enablement: Benefits from making it safe to receive medical care
Diversity: Using varied antibiotics reduces resistance pressure
Insurance: Value of having an antibiotic to hand in case of sudden need
HOPE ON THE HORIZON
Cross-industry collaboration is crucial to tackle AMR head on, with the same urgency as our response to COVID-19. Pfizer is a proud member of the AMR Industry Alliance, a coalition of over 100 biotech, diagnostics, generics and research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations.5 Alliance members are currently investigating 93 products or technologies covering ‘traditional’ antibiotics and antifungals, vaccines, diagnostic platforms, assays and non-traditional or other products.
Outside of the industry there is some fascinating research taking place here in the UK. A team of international researchers, at the University of Portsmouth is using supercomputers to redesign existing antibiotics.6 And researchers at the University of Manchester have found a way to produce complex antibiotics through gene-editing.7 This kind of ‘out of the box’ thinking holds huge promise for the fight against AMR.
And the next generation of scientists are already getting involved. The ‘Swab and Send’ initiative based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine encourages children to swab their homes, gardens and local areas to help scientists identify new antibiotic compounds.8 Indeed, the next antibiotic could be discovered thanks to a child who hasn’t even started school – if you’re looking for hope, look no further!
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top global threats facing society and urgent action is critical to mitigate its impact. Yet despite the major challenges we face in tackling this growing health threat, there is still hope: it’s not too late to turn the tide.
susanne says
Silence in Court?! Nope
Judge Orders Fauci to be Deposed on Social Media Censorship
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Judge Orders Fauci to be Deposed on Social Media Censorship
MICHAEL P SENGER
OCT 24
In a 28-page order, US District Judge Terry Doughty has ordered NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and other leading federal officials in charge of the response to Covid to be deposed in Missouri v. Biden—in which NCLA Legal is representing plaintiffs including Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff against the Biden administration for its coercion of social media companies to violate free speech during Covid.
Discovery documents in the case previously revealed a vast federal censorship army, with more than 80 federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies having secretly coordinated with social media companies to censor private speech, in what plaintiff Aaron Kheriaty described as potentially “the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government’s executive branch in US history.”
“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”
“For the first time, Dr. Fauci and seven other federal officials responsible for running an unlawful censorship enterprise will have to answer questions under oath about the nature and extent of their communications with tech companies,” said NCLA attorney Jenin Younes.
Judge Doughty’s order goes further than a previous ruling for written testimonies. Fauci and the other defendants will now have to testify under oath.
Apparently Judge Doughty is no big fan of “America’s doctor.” As the order states:
Next, Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci can prove he never communicated with social-media platforms about censorship, there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions. Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci acted indirectly or as an intermediary on behalf of others, it is still relevant to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court agrees.
Lastly, Plaintiffs argue that Dr. Fauci’s credibility has been in question on matters related to supposed COVID-19 “misinformation” since 2020. Specifically, Plaintiffs state that Dr. Fauci has made public statements on the efficacy of masks, the percentage of the population needed for herd immunity, NIAID’s funding of “gain-of-function” virus research in Wuhan, the lab-leak theory, and more. Plaintiffs urge that his comments on these important issues are relevant to the matter at hand and are further reasons why Dr. Fauci should be deposed. Plaintiffs assert that they should not be required to simply accept Dr. Fauci’s “self-serving blanket denials” that were issued from someone other than himself at face value. The Court agrees…
Finally, the Court is aware of a number of substantive reasons why Dr. Fauci’s deposition should be taken. The first is the publicly available emails that prove that Dr. Fauci was communicating and acting as an intermediary for others in order to censor information from being shared across multiple social-media outlets. The second is that Dr. Fauci has yet to give any statements under oath in this matter. The third is that the Court has no doubt that Dr. Fauci was engaging in communications with high-ranking social-media officials, which is extremely relevant in the matter at hand.
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Pogo says
A good point to mention perhaps that until October 27th you can watch for free the film The Real Anthony Fauci…
“Within the first 5 minutes, you know why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s blockbuster bestelling book The Real Anthony Fauci is now a full-length feature documentary exposing Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Government.
https://www.therealanthonyfaucimovie.com/trailer/
chris says
Yeah think it’s the one with most potential
https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/doc-90—order-regarding-witness-depositions.pdf?sfvrsn=24c99caa_2
annie says
Thanks, Chris
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
It’s troubling Biden is so captive of a discredited narrative he continues to aggressively promote a product causing horrendous health problems in Americans. It’s even more dismaying he recruited America’s corporations into a racketeering enterprise.
Biden Launches #VaxUpAmerica Tour, as Latest Research Shows New Boosters No Better Than Old Against New Variants
President Biden today urged “all Americans” to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine and pleaded with Congress to continue funding the vaccines and COVID-19 treatments. Meanwhile, the authors of a new study released Monday found the new bivalent boosters were no better than the old boosters at protecting against the latest Omicron variants.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/president-biden-covid-vaccine-booster/
Flanked by Dr. Anthony Fauci, other top U.S. public health officials and the CEOs of major pharmacy chains including CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreens, President Biden today urged “all Americans” to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine and pleaded with Congress to continue funding the vaccines and COVID-19 treatments, such as Pfizer’s Paxlovid.
“If you’re fully vaccinated, get one more COVID shot — once a year, that’s it,” Biden said, likening it to an annual flu shot. “If you get it you’re protected, and if you don’t, you’re putting yourself and other people at unnecessary risk,” he said.
Part 2, the film, The Real Anthony Fauci –
‘It’s even more dismaying he recruited America’s corporations into a racketeering enterprise’ –
is as ‘captivating’ as the first…
annie says
This Film pulls out all the stops – Robert Kennedy Jr. is extremely eloquent – the footage of Anthony Fauci is mesmerizing – the Aids, the Gates, the Rockefellers, the Covid – it is all here –
Watch it and be highly disturbed. or watch it and realize how duped we have become –
Just Watch It…
Where can I watch Part 2?
This film is so fresh and current that the production team is still working on finalizing
Part 2. Watch your email for updates on when it will be available during the free viewing event. If you have purchased a package that includes both Parts 1 & 2, it will be added to the member portal as soon as it is ready, and it will be included in the DVD versions.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” became an immediate best-seller upon its release in 2021, and that despite Big Tech’s censoring of its advertising. Kennedy’s book has now been made into a movie
The book and the film reveal how Fauci turned the National Institutes of Health into an incubator for pharmaceutical products and essentially sold the entire country to the drug industry
The film explores “the carefully planned militarization and monetization of medicine that has left American health ailing and our democracy shattered,” and chronicles the troubling role of the dangerously concentrated mainstream media, which during COVID have seemingly morphed into full-blown propaganda centers
While the NIH and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are supposed to serve the public, the reality is that they’re partnered with private drug companies and act for their benefit. Both agencies own pharmaceutical patents that are then licensed to drug companies while the agencies themselves collect royalties on the sales. Fauci has personally filed patents on hundreds of new drugs his agency funded
Were it not for this symbiotic relationship with drug companies, the NIH/NIAID would not be working against public health and deceiving the public about drugs and vaccines
https://www.globalresearch.ca/real-anthony-fauci-movie-2/5796985
‘A Wave of Death’
The film ends by reviewing the devastating effects seen around the world from these poorly tested experimental mRNA COVID shots. While scientists have been working on mRNA technology for a long time, they were never able to get it to work, at least not safely. When it’s effective, it’s also too toxic.
But Gates, Big Pharma and American health agencies are all too deeply invested in it. They view it as a revolutionary concept, and they’re not willing to let it go. And based on the staggering death toll exacted already, it doesn’t seem to matter how many people die in the process of perfecting it. My advice? Don’t let that be you.
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NY Supreme Court Orders Reinstatement of All Unvaccinated Employees with Back Pay
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MICHAEL P SENGER ‘the judiciary slowly begins to unravel the veil of pseudoscience that’s characterized the entire response to Covid-19.OCT 26’
A New York state Supreme Court has ordered that all New York City employees who were fired for refusing a Covid vaccine be reinstated with back pay. The city fired roughly 1,700 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The ruling stems from a case brought by 16 employees at the Department of Sanitation who were fired for failing to comply with the mandate. The court ruled that the city owes the workers back pay from the time they were fired.
Judge Ralph Porzio wrote in his ruling that while the city’s health commissioner has the authority to issue public health mandates, he “cannot create a new condition of employment” or “terminate employees.”
The court found that “being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19.” Judge Porzio went on:
The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance. If it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued.
Judge Porzio further questioned how a vaccine mandate for public employees could possibly be justified when the mandate for private-sector employees has already been lifted.
There is nothing in the record to support the rationality of keeping a vaccination mandate for public employees, while vacating the mandate for private sector employees … This is clearly an arbitrary and capricious action because we are dealing with identical unvaccinated people being treated differently by the same administrative agency.
The city has stated that it is appealing the order. But the ruling is a major blow to the public health regime, as the judiciary slowly begins to unravel the veil of pseudoscience that’s characterized the entire response to Covid-19.
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Dr Pedro says
Does anyone know anything about “Women in Global Health”?
https://womeningh.org/
“Challenging power and privilege for gender equity in health”
Why on earth would the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation give them a grant of $300,000 for “vaccine development”?
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/05/inv005944
Pogo says
I would assume that the term vaccine development includes setting up local facilities to do field trials of new vaccines and the training of local indigenous staff to perform them.
Women in Global Health Inc appear to be an organization well suited to doing this and (I would think) clearly falls into to their remit. This would be a good reason why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wish to fund them.
If anyone should still be wondering why BMGF are being so generous I’ll refer them to James Corbett, who has done some in-depth webcasts about Bill Gates, his intentions, modus operandi, etc. James has a knack of seemingly being able to stand outside the box whilst looking in. He also provides transcripts of his webcasts (lower done on his pages) for those like me who find it quicker to read than view. Bon appétit.
His most resent (09/24/2022) on Bill is: FLASHBACK: How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health (2020)
https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-how-bill-gates-monopolized-global-health-2020/
Or go straight to: Who Is Bill Gates? How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health. Part 1, 2, 3 & 4
https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/
James Corbett also has suggestions on how mere mortals like ourselves can throw spanners in to the cogs of the New World Order.
Simple Sabotage – #SolutionsWatch
https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-sabotage/
annie says
Grant topic
Vaccine Development
The BMGF spreads its’ tentacles far and wide with more world-wide influence than we could possibly imagine.
This is why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote the book, made the film and gives long-ranging, far-reaching two-hour interviews:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/megyn-kelly-rfk-jr-pfizer-vaccine-safety/
Britain’s Medicine Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Receives Funding from Gates Foundation
https://www.globalresearch.ca/uk-medicine-regulator-receives-funding-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-pushes-vaccines-depopulation/5753708
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA, is meant to be a neutral body that is responsible for making sure that the medicine and medical devices used in the country are acceptably safe.
However, there are serious questions about the agency’s impartiality because they receive significant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in what can only be considered a major conflict of interest. The foundation holds major shares in COVID-19 vaccine developers Pfizer and BioNTech.
Perhaps this explains why the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine was the first one to be authorized for use in children aged 12 and over back in June and remained the only one available to this age group until Moderna’s vaccine was approved this week.
The approval of Pfizer’s vaccine was particularly shocking when you consider that 86 percent of children who participated in the very short and small clinical study used to make the decision suffered from an adverse reaction.
In a Freedom of Information request posted on the website of the MHRA, a representative of the agency admitted that they do receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that mainly supports work on strengthening the regulatory systems in other countries. They added that most of their income comes from fees paid by the pharmaceutical industry.
The agency stated that the current level of grant funding that they receive from the foundation is roughly $3 million, which they say is spread across several projects and three to four financial years.
They added that they would not approve any COVID-19 vaccines until they demonstrate “safety, quality and efficacy through a robust clinical trial programme, as determined by the MHRA, and unless the evidence supports its use.” However, they go on to add that they carefully reviewed the clinical trial data for Pfizer’s vaccine in a study of just 2000 children. They said that the safety data in children was on par with that seen in young adults, which is hardly comforting.
They added that the immunogenicity results, which show how well a vaccine functions, showed that children aged 12 to 15 had similar neutralizing antibody levels to those aged 16 to 25, but they only studied 200 children to reach this conclusion.
Why would any legitimate government agency want to be associated with the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation?
In 2017, the MHRA announced a partnership worth more than £980,000 with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization aimed at improving safety monitoring of medicine in low and middle-income countries. Two years later, they announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research “medicine use which could impact the health of pregnant women around the world.”
This is deeply troubling to anyone who is familiar with the Gates’ track record. Bill himself has gone on the record in a TED conference as saying that vaccines, healthcare and reproductive services could be used to reduce the world’s population. The foundation has also been accused of giving vaccines with sterilization chemicals to unsuspecting Africans.
India’s National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization even went so far as to cut ties with the foundation after it was revealed that its vaccine “campaigns” being conducted on young Indian girls on the pretense of protecting them from cervical cancer were really a form of cloaked vaccine trials that used two highly controversial HPV vaccines linked to significant injury and death.
It’s hard to believe that medical regulators in any country would want any association with them, but the MHRA has been troubled for many years. In 2005, the agency came under fire from the UK’s House of Commons Health Committee for a lack of transparency, and they were accused of advancing the interests of pharmaceutical companies instead of the interests of the people by the same committee the year before.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces $250 million COVID vaccine commitment
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-announces-250-million-covid/story?id=74651890
December 10, 2020
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new $250 million commitment on Thursday, adding to the foundation’s total investment to $1.75 billion into combating COVID-19 through vaccine development and distribution.
“The plan is coming together to get this vaccine out. So, you know, it’s a tragedy, but there’s a lot of heroes in the process of getting it to end,” said Gates.
Gates, who had invested in the vaccine technology in 2015, emphasized the importance of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines ending this pandemic and potentially ones to come in the future.
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“We are delighted to be involved in such an important global initiative. New drugs and vaccines are being brought to the market for the first time in public health programmes in settings where the safety monitoring and regulatory systems need strengthening. The expertise we can bring to the project will help national safety monitoring centres identify risks and benefits early and take appropriate regulatory action to support global heath.”
Dr Ian Hudson, Chief Executive Officer at MHRA said.
– in an MHRA Press Release
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ian-hudson-22207111
Senior Adviser
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Sep 2019 – Present3 years 2 months
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VP, R&D
SmithKline Beecham
Nov 1989 – Jan 2001 11 years 3 months
“This will be seared in the memory of this generation …
Dr Pedro says
The author overlooked VAC-PACT – The Vaccination Confidence – Patients’ and Professionals’ Awareness, Communication and Trust.
https://vac-pact.com/
This project provides patients with chronic diseases, health professionals, and supporting communities (including patient associations, families, informal carers) with tailored information about the importance of vaccines in their specific contexts working towards improving vaccine uptake and confidence.
This is sponsored in part by the EPF – the industry dominated European Patients’ Forum.