Special Interest Group in Vaccines

Objectives

To foster development and adoption of methods to improve the accurate and efficient collection of vaccine exposure information (e.g., 2D barcodes, vaccine generic names, vaccine doses and dates of delivery) for each vaccinee. Lot identifiers, in particular, would allow verification of the exact vaccine product (type and manufacturer) as well as linkage to details of vaccine antigens, preservatives, and excipients).
To foster development and sharing of new/existing methods for vaccine safety, effectiveness, usage, cost-benefit, risk-management/mitigation across the life cycle of vaccines from pre- to post-licensure, and from signal detection to hypothesis testing.
To provide a forum for interaction with regulatory authorities and public health agencies to raise awareness and stimulate incorporation of vaccine specific and relevant aspects into regulations and regulatory templates.
To assist low and middle-income countries with development of their data collection and technical expertise in vaccine pharmacoepidemiology.

Mission

The SIG strives to achieve these goals by offering a platform for interested ISPE members to plan educational activities for the ICPE pre-conference courses together with the education committee, shared national and international projects and grant proposals, and joined presentation in form of workshops, symposia or poster walks at annual ICPE meetings. Whenever possible, the VAX SIG will seek to maximize synergy with existing vaccine institutions and stakeholders.

SIG homepage on ISPE Exchange (login required)

SIG leader(s)

Chair	James Stark, PhD	Worldwide Safety and Regulatory Pfizer New York, USA	jhstark@gmail.com
Immediate Past-Chair	Harry Seifert, MD, MSCE	Clinical Safety Sciences GSK Pennsylvania, USA	harry.a.seifert@gsk.com
Past Chair	Bob Chen, MD, MA	Brighton Collaboration Atlanta, USA
Vice Chair	Wan-Ting Huang, MD	Office of Preventive Medicine, Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan	pecuchet@gmail.com
Secretary	Catherine Panozzo, PhD, MPH	Department of Population Medicine Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School	catherine_panozzo@harvardpilgrim.org

Workgroup Leaders

Regulatory Guidance	Mendel Haag, PhD	Epidemiology Seqirus Amsterdam, Netherlands	mendel.haag@seqirus.com
Methodology	Patricia Saddier, MD, PhD	Pharmacoepidemiology Department Merck Research Laboratories Pennsylvania, USA	patricia_saddier@merck.com
Education and Advocacy in Low and Middle Income Countries	Andrea Sutherland, MD	Merck Rockville, Maryland, USA	andrea.sutherland@merck.com
Education and Advocacy in Low and Middle Income Countries	Daniel Weibel, PhD	Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherland	d.weibel@erasmusmc.nl

Members

Victoria Abbing	Penina Haber	Piku Patnaik
Syed Ahmad	Francois Haguinet	Vitali Pool
Kandace Amend	Eelko Hak	Nicolas Praet
Valentina Attanasi	Janet Hardy	Natalia Ramos-Hernandez
Steven Bailey	Susanne Hartwig	Patricia Saddier
Meghan Baker	Kui Huang	Nehemiah Samson
Sonja Banga	Wei-I Huang	Daphne Sawlwin
Vincent Bauchau	Wan-Ting Huang	Harry Seifert
Jorgen Bauwens	Kwan Hur	Vivek Shinde
Alex Bica	Judith Jones	Francois Simondon
Kaat Bollaerts	Sun-Young Jung	James Stark
Didier Nzolo Boolene	Dan Kajungu	Miriam Sturkenboom
Elliott Bosco	Alison Kawai	Andrea Sutherland
Bob Brody	Alena Khromava	Charlotte Switzer
Anne Butler	Nicky Klein	Carla Talarico
Bing Cai	Sonali Kochhar	Kyrstie Thai
Rebecca Chandler	Carol Koro	Lina Titievsky
Bob Chen	Martin Kuldorff	Sylvie Tomczyk
Jing Chen	Tamar Lasky	Thomas Verstraeten
Catherine Cohet	Bradley Layton	Silvia Perez Vilar
Adam Cui	Hankil Lee	Alec Walker
Caitlin Dodd	Andreia Leite	Wei Wang
Gael Dos Santos	Se Li	Chengbin Wang
Jonathan Duffy	Yun Lu	Daniel Weibel
Katherine Duszynski	Olivia Mahaux	Lisa Weiss
Emmanuelle Espie	Morgan Marks	Yonas Weldeselassie
Deshayne Fell	Robert Maroko	Heather Whitaker
Germano Ferreira	Josiah Masuka	Corinne Willame
Bruce Fireman	Mike McNeil	Jerome Wilson
Vera Frajzyngier	Alexandru Mihai Bica	Bob Wise
Lourdes Frau	Sharareh Modaressi	Katherine Yih
Jen Gerber	Pedro Moro	Xue Dan You
Julia Glanternik	Gui Jun Ning	Yinong Young-Xu
Kristin Goddard	Josephine Ocran-Appiah	Mitra Yousefi
Joanne Gruber	Yvonne Ohadike	Huifeng Yun
Mendel Haag	Catherine Panozzo	Qusseny Zerbo

Dates of Meetings

Occurs the first Wednesday of every month at 9:00 am EST (UTC/GMT -5 hours). Interested persons should email Catherine Panozzo: Catherine_Panozzo@harvardpilgrim.org.