Safety and tolerability of vaccine-preventable diseases in Australian travellers

Principal Advisor: Professor Colleen Lau or Dr Luis Furuya-Kanamori

Phone: 0402 134 878

Organisational unit: School of Public Health, UQ Centre for Clinical Research

SmartVax is an active surveillance system that monitors adverse events following immunisation, with >450 participating general practices and immunisation clinics across Australia. Through existing collaborations between SmartVax and the research team at CRESTMA (Clinical Research and Evidence Synthesis at Travel Medicinc Alliance), a range of research projects can be developed to investigate safety and tolerability of travel vaccines (e.g. Yellow Fever).