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Norman Begg - Remarkable Story of Vaccines, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Remarkable Story of Vaccines

From Milkmaid to Genome

Av Norman Begg

709 kr

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This remarkable book tells you everything you need to know about vaccines. Having over forty years’ experience of the subject, the author covers the history of vaccines, how they work, how research is carried out, their safety, how they are used in society, the latest on COVID-19 and what the future holds. It is a deeply personal account with anecdotes involving a cow called Blossom, a hospital in the Caribbean, a crocodile-infested lake in Malawi, an encounter with Russian soldiers in Prague and many others. An A-to-Z section covers every vaccine from Anthrax to Yellow Fever. It educates, entertains and enlightens the vaccine scientific community and public health practitioners.Key FeaturesExplores a highly topical concept of vaccines in a comprehensive and easy-to-read mannerEngages readers with relatable and interesting anecdotesProvides a balanced, factual counter to the huge amount of current vaccine misinformation
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-05-06
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 192
  • Upplaga: 2
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781041344162
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Dr. Norman Begg, MBChB, DTM&H, FFPH, is a public health physician with over forty years clinical and research experience in the prevention and control of infectious disease. He has led the development and introduction of several new vaccines in the private and the public sectors.After graduating from Edinburgh medical school, he worked for two years in St Lucia, West Indies in both hospital and primary care. From 1980 to 1981, he worked as a community paediatrician, running vaccine clinics in a deprived area of London. He worked for fifteen years at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, the UK National Public Health Institute, where he was responsible for surveillance of all vaccine-preventable diseases and conducted trials leading to the successful introduction of several vaccines, particularly those for meningitis. He was head of the Immunisation Division, and also served as deputy director of the Centre for three years. He was a regular consultant to the World Health Organization, and chairman of their European Immunisation Advisory Group. He also worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during this time.At GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines from 2000 to 2017, he held several leadership roles, including head of clinical development for paediatric vaccines, head of scientific affairs and public health, and chief medical officer. He worked on many vaccines, including rotavirus, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal disease and pandemic influenza. He chaired the company’s safety board.Since 2018, he has worked as an independent consultant, providing scientific advice on vaccine research and development, including COVID-19, to pharmaceutical companies and investors.He has published extensively on the epidemiology, prevention and control of vaccine-preventable disease. He co-edited the Green Book, the handbook that describes UK vaccine policy from 1992 to 1996.

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