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LOCATION:Parktown Education Campus Auditorium, School of Public Health, Parktown Education Campus
DESCRIPTION:Professors Shabir Madhi and Helen Rees will present the 16th Prestigious Research Lecture hosted by the Faculty of Health Sciences.The first part of the lecture will be presented by Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology, who will discuss the work undertaken by the MRC Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU) at Wits over the past 21 years. His talk will include how the RMPRU has become a leading research unit in the field of immunisation of pregnant women. Madhi is the director of the PMPRU and holds the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Research Initiative Chair in Vaccine Preventable Disease.
<br />Rees’ talk will focus on the impact of HPV vaccines. She will explore what else could be offered as part of an adolescent vaccine platform, and will present on-going work on the development of new vaccines for other sexually transmitted diseases including herpes simplex vaccines, gonorrhoea and HI. Rees is Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) where she is also a&nbsp;Personal&nbsp;Professor in&nbsp;Obstetrics and&nbsp;Gynaecology and the Co-Director of the Wits µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Local Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE).
<br />The Prestigious Research Lecture concludes with an introduction to the new ‘flagship programme’ awarded to the University in 2016 by the South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation to strengthen µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø leadership in vaccinology research and advocacy.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Professors Shabir Madhi and Helen Rees will present the 16th Prestigious Research Lecture hosted by the Faculty of Health Sciences.</strong><p>The first part of the lecture will be presented by Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology, who will discuss the work undertaken by the MRC Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU) at Wits over the past 21 years. His talk will include how the RMPRU has become a leading research unit in the field of immunisation of pregnant women. Madhi is the director of the PMPRU and holds the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Research Initiative Chair in Vaccine Preventable Disease.</p>
<br /><p>Rees’ talk will focus on the impact of HPV vaccines. She will explore what else could be offered as part of an adolescent vaccine platform, and will present on-going work on the development of new vaccines for other sexually transmitted diseases including herpes simplex vaccines, gonorrhoea and HI. Rees is Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) where she is also a&nbsp;Personal&nbsp;Professor in&nbsp;Obstetrics and&nbsp;Gynaecology and the Co-Director of the Wits µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Local Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE).</p>
<br /><p>The Prestigious Research Lecture concludes with an introduction to the new ‘flagship programme’ awarded to the University in 2016 by the South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation to strengthen µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø leadership in vaccinology research and advocacy.</p>
SUMMARY:Wits and vaccines: The impact and potential of vaccines for the µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø region
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