Methodological frontiers in vaccine safety: qualifying available evidence for rare events, use of distributed data networks to monitor vaccine safety issues, and monitoring the safety of pregnancy interventions

• Nick Andrews,
• Miriam Sturkenboom,
• Helen Petousis-Harris,
• Saad B Omer,
• Caitlin Dodd,
• Steven Black

Affiliations

Nick Andrews

2 Statistics, Modelling and Economics Department, Health Protection Agency, London, UK

Miriam Sturkenboom

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Helen Petousis-Harris

Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Saad B Omer

Institute for Global Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Caitlin Dodd

Julius Center, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Steven Black

Global Vaccine Data Network, Berkeley, California, USA