MRC Unit, The Gambia Newsletter

TAMANEWSLETTERMedical Research Council Unit, The Gambia TAMA: Wolof. n. a talking drum VOL: 10 ISSUE: 02 MRC Unit, The Gambia: an African science centre continued on 04 PneumoWAR: supporting the evidence for vaccine introduction next page The... More

TAMANEWSLETTERMedical Research Council Unit, The Gambia TAMA: Wolof. n. a talking drum VOL: 10 ISSUE: 02 MRC Unit, The Gambia: an African science centre continued on 04 PneumoWAR: supporting the evidence for vaccine introduction next page The implementation of vaccines requires information to support this, yet the evidence of disease burden remains elusive in the places where these vaccines are needed most, and in Africa –with the exception of a few countries including The Gambia – the acquisition of good data remains a problem. David Goldblatt is Professor of Vaccinology and Immunology and Head of the Immunobiology Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He is also a Consultant Paediatric Immunologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, David Goldblatt is a long-standing collaborator with MRC The Gambia, although he has never visited the Unit before. Here he reports back on his first visit. D Less