Vaccines: Innovation and Human Health

Abstract:

EASAC published on 9 May 2006 a report on vaccines: innovation and human health.

The report focuses on the importance of vaccines: reviewing the latest scientific developments and their implications for public health. Our recommendations include a call for an increasing role for the European Commission in public health; clarifying priorities for the European Centre for Disease Control; introducing incentives to manufacture vaccines; strengthening public sector R&D and regulatory authority research capacity; and promoting vaccine use.