In recognition of her dedication and services to medicine and global health, Professor Alison Elliott was honoured with an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) award in King Charles III’s 2025 New Year Honours. Prof. Elliott is Professor of Tropical Medicine at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and theme leader for vaccines research at the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRC/UVRI and LSHTM) Uganda Research Unit. She has been an active part of HypoVax Global from our inception as a partner and advisor.

In the second quarter of 2024, HypoVax Global Knowledge Hub has been busy establishing new connections, exploring potential collaborative projects and welcoming a new PhD researcher working on an exciting project. Find out about our key highlights, upcoming events, researcher spotlight, field story and more.

Exciting new findings related to vaccine hyporesponsiveness have just been published by our HypoVax Global partners based at the MRC/UVRI LSHTM Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe, Uganda.
In the November 2024 issue of The Lancet Global Health journal, four insightful articles from the groundbreaking POPVAC (Population Differences in Vaccine response) clinical trials are out now. Funded by the UKRI / MRC, the POPVAC trials ran between 2018 and 2022 and explored how environmental factors as well as chronic infections shape immune responses across adolescent schoolchildren living in distinct urban-rural areas in Uganda.

In the second quarter of 2024, HypoVax Global Knowledge Hub has been busy establishing new connections, exploring potential collaborative projects and welcoming a new PhD researcher working on an exciting project. Find out about our key highlights, upcoming events, researcher spotlight, field story and more.

REVERSE meets CapTan: Fostering the spirit of collaboration within HypoVax Global.
HypoVax Global researchers conduct multiple projects in parallel. There is often overlap in research activities that enable researchers to travel to the field together and thus demonstrating how strong collaboration among members of the hub can be key in achieving goals. Dr. Mariateresa Coppola who leads the REVERSE-Tonsil project had the opportunity to travel to Tanzania with scientists working on the CapTan study. Here we highlight Dr. Coppola’s experiences in the field.

Between 12th and 16 February 2024, we hosted the first HypoVax Global workshop entitled “Connecting people to reverse vaccine hyporesponsiveness”. The workshop took place at the Lorentz Center located in Leiden, the Netherlands. The Lorentz Center is well known for hosting international scientific meetings that are innovative, engaging, interactive and of high scientific quality.

Happy New Year!
Best wishes for a 2024 full of new opportunities, new beginnings and lots of ground-breaking innovations to improve global health and well-being. Here at the HypoVax Global Knowledge Hub, we are looking forward to a wonderful year full of connections, engaging interactions and research advancements. We are kicking off our action-packed year with our first workshop slated for…

ECTMIH Academy Workshop on creating a truly global knowledge hub HypoVax Global in partnership with LUMC Global will be hosting a workshop at the ECTMIH Academy which will take place on 19 November 2023 just before the ECTMIH 2023 Congress in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The workshop is entitled “Creating a successful and truly global…