Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
Vaccine Datalink and Research Group
The Vaccine Datalink and Research (VaDaR) group is within the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care.
The team are primarily focussed on investigating the risks and benefits of vaccines using pharmacoepidemiologic approaches. They are also interested in vaccine development, vaccine immunology, and vaccine risk communication. The team are part of the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN).
Key areas of research and interest
- Vaccine safety
- Vaccine effectiveness
- Vaccine immunogenicity
- Particular interest: Vaccines against pertussis, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, HPV, varicella, shingles, rotavirus
- Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine communications
Our team
Dr Anna Howe
KPS Research Fellow, Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiology
Dr Janine Paynter
Epidemiologist
Dr Helen Petousis-Harris
Group Director
