Barnes, M.V.C. orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-3262, Mandla, A., Smith, E. et al. (37 more authors) (2023) Human infection challenge in the pandemic era and beyond, HIC-Vac annual meeting report, 2022. Immunotherapy Advances, 3 (1). ltad024. ISSN 2732-4303
Abstract
HIC-Vac is an international network of researchers dedicated to developing human infection challenge studies to accelerate vaccine development against pathogens of high global impact. The HIC-Vac Annual Meeting (3rd and 4th November 2022) brought together stakeholders including researchers, ethicists, volunteers, policymakers, industry partners, and funders with a strong representation from low- and middle-income countries. The network enables sharing of research findings, especially in endemic regions. Discussions included pandemic preparedness and the role of human challenge to accelerate vaccine development during outbreak, with industry speakers emphasising the great utility of human challenge in vaccine development. Public consent, engagement, and participation in human challenge studies were addressed, along with the role of embedded social science and empirical studies to uncover social, ethical, and regulatory issues around human infection challenge studies. Study volunteers shared their experiences and motivations for participating in studies. This report summarises completed and ongoing human challenge studies across a variety of pathogens and demographics, and addresses other key issues discussed at the meeting.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Immunology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | controlled human infection models; mucosal immunology; low-middle-income countries; infectious disease; vaccination; experimental medicine |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Medicine and Population Health |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2023 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2023 10:56 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/immadv/ltad024 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/immadv/ltad024 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206000 |