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Skills Course

Session: Sunday Afternoon Pre-conference Skills Courses

Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness

Sunday, August 25, 2024
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM CEST
Location: Auditorium
Learning Objectives

To educate intermediate and advanced researchers on the application of pharmacoepidemiology ‎in vaccine research, with topic specific lectures focused on theoretical and applied methodologies ‎in evaluating real-world vaccine safety and effectiveness ‎

Course Schedule (3.5 hours)‎

‎1.‎ Introduction – Course Organizers (10 min.)‎

‎2.‎ Vaccine Safety (70 min. in total, each lecture is 20 min. long)‎

a.‎ Introduction to vaccine safety and lifecycle management – Robert T. Chen
b.‎ Overarching safety methods, including self-controlled risk interval (SCRI) – ‎Priyadarshani Dharia
c.‎ Evaluating the risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome post-vaccination using a self-‎controlled risk interval (SCRI) case study – Joanne Wu
d.‎ Q&A (10 min.)‎

‎3.‎ Break (15 min.) ‎

‎4.‎ Vaccine Effectiveness (90 min. in total, each lecture is 20 min. long)‎

a.‎ Introduction to methods for studying vaccine effectiveness – Kaatje Bollaerts ‎
b.‎ The test-negative design for estimating vaccine effectiveness: key assumptions ‎and considerations – Henok Tadesse Ayele
c.‎ Methods to assess the effect of unmeasured variables – Hector S. Izurieta
d.‎ Target trial emulation for vaccine effectiveness and safety – Katie Mues
e.‎ Q&A (10 min.)‎

‎5.‎ Panel discussion with Q&A (20 min) – Moderated by course organizers