Vaccine safety in numbers

<p></p><p>Visualise Your Thesis video entry</p><p>Title: Vaccine safety in numbers</p><p><br></p><p>We know vaccines protect us, but as with any medicine, we want to understand both the benefits and risks. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is given to children to protect against tuberculosis. BCG (re)vaccination is increasingly being considered in adults for the protection against a variety of infections and diseases. </p> <p>Despite one century since this vaccine was first used, there is a paucity of data on the safety of BCG vaccination and revaccination in adults. Optimal management strategies for common injection site reactions remain uncertain. </p> <p>This PhD project investigates the safety of revaccination, the predictors for and the management of adverse reactions, through active safety surveillance within an international clinical trial -‘BCG vaccination to reduce the Impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers’ (BRACE). </p>