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Vaccine Trials: Methods and Best Practices
Course
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21 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Free certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
This course will cover the following topics: A brief review of vaccinehistory and types; how vaccine trials are conducted, including which dataare collected and how those data are managed and evaluated; appropriateprocesses to ensure human subjects protection and informed consent; methodsfor recruitment and enrollment of participants; and vaccine safety assessment.Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the types of vaccines in use today
- Describe how vaccines are evaluated in phase I and II clinical trials
- Identify key regulatory requirements, considerations and ethical standards for human subjects protection and informed consent.
- Discuss how clinical trials are conducted with an emphasis on quality data and protection of the rights, safety and well-being of volunteers.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
- Amber Cox - Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Karen Charron - Bloomberg School of Public Health
Editor
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a private American university located in Baltimore, Maryland. It also has campuses in Washington, D.C. Bologna, Italy, Singapore and Nanjing, China. It owes its name to Johns Hopkins, a wealthy entrepreneur who bequeathed 7 million dollars to the university on his death.
One of the most prestigious universities in the United States (especially for its faculties of medicine and public health, as well as its school of international affairs), the institution defines itself as the country's leading "research university". At the beginning of its history, it was mainly inspired by the University of Heidelberg and the German educational model of Wilhelm von Humboldt. In 2019, 39 Nobel Prize winners have their names associated with the university.
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