IMPRINT has awarded seven Public Engagement Grants that aim to improve the public’s awareness and understanding of maternal vaccination.
On Saturday, 22 June, the IMPRINT network took part in Berlin’s Long Night of Science 2024, presenting its arts project 'Clothed with Protection'.
IMPRINT has awarded four Progression Grants that will enable deeper research into maternal and neonatal immunisation.
On 14 March 2024, a dedicated IMPRINT session was held as part of the 6th International Maternal and Neonatal Immunisation Symposium (INMIS) in San José, Costa Rica.
On the 6th and 7th of February, the IMPRINT Network organized a face-to-face meeting in Kingston upon Thames, UK.
The preliminary programme for IMPRINT's long-awaited in-person meeting in Kingston, UK, on the 6th and 7th of February 2023 is now available.
The IMPRINT Network Meeting 2023 organizing team is inviting members to submit an abstract for publication.
We are excited to announce that registration for the long-awaited IMPRINT face-to-face Network meeting is now open!
We are delighted to announce that the IMPRINT network has received additional funding from UKRI to run a number of activities between September 2022 and March 2023!
IMPRINT fellow Alansana Darboe from the MRC Unit The Gambia at the LSHTM and his team investigated interactions between Maternal IgG and Neonatal Innate Immune Cells.
IMPRINT fellow Neisha Sundaram from LSHTM completed her project on public, provider, policy and contextual factors for maternal vaccine acceptance.
Beth Holder from Imperial College London and her team studied the transplacental transfer of protective antibodies from mother to baby in pregnancy with human placental samples.
Clare Cutland from the University of the Witwatersrand and her team explored the knowledge and attitudes inhibiting vaccine acceptancy during pregnancy in South Africa.
IMPRINT fellow Shadia Khandaker from the University of Liverpool completed her project on GBS protective immunity in the context of high- vs. low- GBS prevalence countries.
Andrew Armitage from the University of Oxford and his team conducted a systems immunology RCT substudy in Bangladesh to investigate how iron influences infant immune development.
Marie Yang from the University of Liverpool and her team produced a short film that portrays beliefs and concerns about vaccines in UK, Malawi and Thailand.
Mary Kyohere from MUJHU Care Ltd and her team explored the understanding of barriers to delivery and uptake of maternal vaccines in Uganda to increase maternal vaccination.
Agnes Msoka from the Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute in Tanzania conducted a public engagment project to improve maternal vaccination awareness in remote areas in Tanzania.
Patrice Mawa from the Uganda Virus Research Institute and his team trained students as change agents to increase the utilisation of maternal and neonatal immunisation services.
Nirmalya Mukherjee from MANT in Kolkata, India, led a project that promoted maternal and neonatal vaccination among tribal communities in West Bengal, India.
IMPRINT held its final Network Meeting on October 5-6, 2021 as a virtual event.
Merryn Voysey from the University of Oxford and her team conducted an individual participant data meta-analysis to investigate maternal transplacental antibody decay rates.
Dr Natalie Shenker and Dr Gemma Partridge discussed challenges and opportunities in COVID-19 vaccination during lactation in our IMPRINT webinar series.
Ruth Karron and Judith Absalon discussed the COVID-19 vaccine trials in pregnancy and the ethical framework around these studies in our IMPRINT webinar series.
Group B Strep Support is organising a virtual Group B Strep in Pregnancy and Babies Conference on Wednesday, 2 June 2021.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists published information for health care providers and pregnant women on SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy.
Dr Chris Gale from Imperial College London provided new insights about the impact of COVID-19 on the health of neonates in a webinar organised by IMPRINT.
Patience Kiyuka and her team produced a play and a radio drama to address maternal vaccine hesitancy in rural Kenya.
IMPRINT awardee Chinedu Iwu has published the results of his public engagement project in BMC Public Health.
A new publication by Chris Gale, Maria A Quigley, Anna Placzek et al. portrays characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK.
Sonali Kochhar and her team evaluated the field performance of globally standardised case definitions of key obstetric and neonatal terms for the assessment of safety of vaccines.
Chrissie Jones from the University of Southampton and her team investigated factors that affect the transplacental transfer of antibodies from mother to infant.
Qibo Zhang from the University of Liverpool studied the effect of maternal immunisation on newborns' vaccination response in his pump-priming project.
During his 18-momth IMPRINT fellowship, Dan Kajungu worked on innovations for vaccine safety monitoring and improved maternal and neonatal immunisation in rural Uganda.
Chinedu Iwu hosted a workshop for traditional birth attendants in Nigeria to promote maternal and neonatal immunisation uptake.
Brenda Okech and her team raised the awareness of maternal vaccinaton in Ugandan fishing communities.
Ugochukwu Madubueze and her team produced a short film on the benefits, myths and misperceptions of maternal vaccination in Nigeria.
Sudaxshina Murdan from the UCL School of Pharmacy worked on the immune response in the vagina after oral vaccination.
By developing a free computer game modelling vaccines versus infections, Hal Drakesmith and his team want to increase the understanding of epidemiological principles.
In October/November 2020, the Vaccine Confidence Project™ is hosting two webinars focused on COVID-19
The results of our IMPRINT survey on the effect of COVID-19 on global healthcare services have been published.
Beate Kampmann, Chrissie Jones and Beth Holder published an article on transplacental antibody transfer and the roles of the four subclasses of IgG in protection against infection.
IMPRINT has awarded five public engagement grants for raising the public's awareness of maternal vaccination in low and middle-income countries.
The MRC and the DFID have launched a new call for proposals for the African Research Leader award.
IMPRINT is delighted to share two new publication by our board members Clare Cutland and Sonali Kochhar.
The IMPRINT network has developed a survey for monitoring how immunisation efforts for pregnant women, newborns and infants are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM has published a series of articles on COVID-19 and pregnancy.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has published information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UKRI-supported research which includes IMPRINT grants and projects.
Our board member Sonali Kochhar wrote an article on clinical trials during outbreaks that includes ethical considerations for the inclusion of pregnant women in vaccine trials.
IMPRINT board member Beate Kampmann published a systematic review on the safety of administering live vaccines during pregnancy.
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with more than a 40-year history of convening conferences.
The Public Engagement project “Promoting Awareness on Maternal Vaccines (PAM)” led by Dr Brenda Okech and Gertrude Nanyonjo.
MUJHU CARE LTD is a Kampala – based equal opportunities, Research and Service Delivery Organization with a focus on the health of women and children.
The study uses role play as an information, education and communication (IEC) tool that can influence people’s choices and behaviors.
Dr Helen H Skirrow, Public Health Specialty Registrar and Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, at Imperial College London has been awarded a 6-month Clinical Research Fellowship
IMPRINT is delighted to share a new publication by two of our IMPRINT steering group members Beate Kampmann and Heidi Larson
The IMPRINT network would like to share the following announcement by Linda Glennie, Director of Research, Evidence and Policy, from the Meningitis Research Foundation.
On 17 September 2019, the IMPRINT session took place as part of the 5th International Maternal and Neonatal Immunisation Symposium (INMIS) in Vancouver, Canada.
Prof Heidi Larson, member of the IMPRINT Steering Group, chimes in on the UK losing its measles-free status.
The 5th International Neonatal & Maternal Immunization Symposium will take place on September 15-17, 2019
Prof Heidi Larson, member of the IMPRINT Steering Group, was interviewed by The Guardian and talked about vaccine-hesitant parents
Applications for the MSc (Med) in the field of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa for January 2020 intake are invited.
The Infection and Immunity Research Institute at St Georges, University of London is looking for a Clinical Research Fellow
IMPRINT would like to share a great opportunity organized by the Fondation Mérieux and the University of Geneva.
We are excited to announce that on 17 September IMPRINT will host a session at the 5th International Neonatal & Maternal Immunization Symposium 2019.
We are happy to announce an opportunity for a 6-months placement between The Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Pfizer.
On 18 June 2019, the IMPRINT Network Steering Committee and Management Board came together to hold their second annual meeting.
We have an outstanding line up of international speakers and many opportunities for speakers who will be selected based on the submitted abstracts.
This month, another relevant publication has been published in the Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics journal
We are delighted to share two more publications by one of our IMPRINT founding members and challenge 5 co-lead Dr Sonali Kochhar.
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Dr Kirsty LeDoare has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders fellowship to take forward her work in Group B strep research.
The World Immunization Week 2019 has just started!
Our board members Sonali Kochhar, Ed Clarke and Clare Cutland published in Vaccine on “Immunization in pregnancy safety surveillance in low...
Sadly, the measles virus is sparking grave concern worldwide, as the highly contagious airborne disease makes a resurgence.
The Global Maternal and Neonatal Health funding call is a joint initiative between the Medical Research Council, partly funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)
From December 3rd – 7th 2018 , the GCRF Networks Vaccinology Course was held in Bangkok.
The Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) is committed to developing concrete, actionable, consensus-driven ethics guidance...
The 5th ReSViNET Foundation Conference RSVVW 2019, a global conference on novel RSV therapeutics will be held on 12-14 November 2019
The African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE) initiated Master of Science in Medicine in the field of Vaccinology starting from January 2019.
Heidi Larson, our challenge 4 co-lead and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project has published the following articles and report on vaccine confidence this month
“The Fourth International Neonatal and Maternal Immunization Symposium (INMIS 2017): Toward Integrating Maternal and Infant Immunization Programs“ has recently been published
The course will be delivered by an exceptional line up of world renowned academic and industrial speakers and resonates with the ‘One Health’ agenda
Beate Kampmann, Beth Holder and Sonali Kochhar introduced IMPRINT at the “Workshop cum Expert Review Meeting on Maternal Immunization”
The Makere/UVRI Infection and Immunity Centre of Excellence, Uganda is running an intensive two-week modular course “Immunology in the Tropics”
The African Advanced Vaccinology Course (Afro-ADVAC) was held in September in Gauteng, South Africa hosted by the African Local Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise
Our first annual full network meeting has been held on 24 and 25 September 2018 in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London.
We will regularly highlight publications from IMPRINT members and/or with relevance to the issue of maternal immunization in this section
Beate Kampmann, our IMPRINT network PI, and Naor Bar-Zeev, our challenge 6 co-lead, joined 58 other individuals across 25 organizations
We will regularly highlight publications from IMPRINT members and/or with relevance to the issue of maternal immunization in this section
Congratulations to our new awardees and their collaborating partners! Titles and lay summaries of the projects can be found on our projects website.
The awards provide up to £25,000 over one year to support collaborations between developing countries and the UK
Authored by our IMPRINT founding member and challenge 5 co-lead Dr Sonali Kochhar and co-authored by Dr Chrissie Jones
Whooping cough can cause serious disease, particularly in young infants.
Thousands of clinicians, researchers, residents, and students will come together for the annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by a germ that can affect the lungs and in severe cases, the blood and the brain
The ultimate aim of our work is to develop vaccines that will be taken by pregnant women and which will then protect babies from catching infections.
Failure to thrive: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunisation safety data
Our IMPRINT network manager, Dr. Claudia Schacht, together with our sister Network Managers joined forces during the British Society for Immunology (BSI)
Congratulations to our first three pump priming awardees and their collaborating partners whose projects will start in spring 2018!
On 10 Sept 2017, the Steering Committee and Management Board of the new IMPRINT network came together in Brussels, Belgium, to hold their project kickoff meeting.
