Name of organisation
1) Department/Research group
2) Organisation/affiliationVACCINE.GRID
Short Name in the inventoryVACCINE.GRID
Administrative Contact
Title Mrs
Last name Casagrande
First name Simone
Address line 1Spitalstrasse 33
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityBasel
Postcode
CountrySwitzerland
Phone number (incl. country code)41-61-7042945
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)
Scientific Contact
Title Professor
Last name Sturkenboom
First name Miriam
Address line 1Spitalstrasse 33
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityBasel
Postcode
CountrySwitzerland
Phone number (incl. country code)41-61-7042945
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)
2. Description
OUR VISION:
Timely and high quality scientific information on vaccine effects.
OUR MISSION:
To quantify vaccine effects based on state-of-the-art distributed methods, innovative technology, and large populations in a federated approach.
3. Category
Charity or non-profit organisation
4. Available resources
In houseVia Contacts/Network
Epidemiologist/Pharmacoepidemiologist
Yes
No
Statistician
Yes
No
Clinician
Yes
No
Clinical Pharmacologist
Yes
No
Pharmacist
No
Yes
Geneticist/Pharmacogeneticist
No
Yes
IT specialist
Yes
No
Ethics expertise
No
Yes
Legal expertise
Yes
No
Regulatory expertise
No
Yes
Vaccinologists
Yes
No
Vaccine safety expertise
Yes
No
5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years
Immunological products and vaccines
Infectious diseases
6. Design of drug safety/risk-benefit studies published in the past 5 years
Cohort Study
Case Control Study
Drug Utilisation
Interventional Clinical Trial
Meta-Analysis
7. Experience in collecting data directly from individual patients/respondents
None
8. Access to data collection resources
Capacity to conduct face-to-face interviews
Yes
In a clinic
Yes
In the community
Yes
Electronic data capture systems
Yes
System used:
Jerboa
Interactive voice response systems
No
Call centre
Yes
9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis
Yes
10. Work with existing data resources in the past 3 years
Name of data resourceNo. of studies
Hospital Discharge9
IPCI9
GPRD9
Emilia Romagna GPs drug prescription9
Danish Medical Registries9
11. Registries established by centre
None
12. Experience in collaboration in a study team
Principal Investigator
Collaborating Investigator
13. Current involvement in research networks
None