Welcome to the Human Infection Studies open-access web space, bringing together knowledge, tools and methods to support researchers working in or interested on this area of research.
What are human infection studies?
Watch the video below from the Wellcome Trust Vaccine Group explaining human infection studies and why they're important.
A piece in the New York Times refers to a recent Science paper about differing views on human challenge trials, reflecting on phase 1 trials in healthy volunteers and malaria human challenge trials Read more
Typhoid fever, caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi and spread in food and water, kills almost 200,000 victims a year — many of them young children — in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Survivors may suffer perforated intestines, heart problems ... Read more
A new typhoid vaccine for both adults and children has been proven by Oxford researchers to be safe and effective in preventing the disease. To view the full article, please click here. Read more
Since 2005, Total and its corporate Foundation chose to act against infectious diseases by uniting with the Institut Pasteur and its international network. A call for proposal is launched that intends to support original research in the field of infectious ... Read more
Wellcome Trust’s funding call for Human Infection Studies for Vaccine Development is now open. This scheme supports teams of researchers working in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) which ...
The Council of Europe has published two reports reflecting:
We have provided a non-exhaustive list of guidelines, tools, templates and documents - as well as links to external resources - that are relevant to the development of health research, trials studies in general, and data management and sharing. Please check out our dedicated pages for Resources on Trials, Health Research, and Data Management and Sharing
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Find out more about the work being developed by The Wellcome Trust's vaccine group and Imperial College London and their research on human infection studies.
Go to pageThe WHO has listed dengue fever among the top 10 health threats facing the planet in 2019. Interestingly, another of the top 10 is vaccine ...
The Dengue Illness Index is a tool for capturing the patient’s experience of dengue (rather than characterizing dengue severity) that is intended to support research. ...
The threat of dengue in Europe has become a reality. At the tail end of 2018, autochthonous dengue cases appeared in Spain and France, and ...
