The students will obtain basic knowledge of specific concepts, activities and methodology in vaccine-related epidemiology. They will learn to describe the aims and effects of vaccination programme (control, elimination, eradication), key aspects of vaccine-related immunology, the rationale and key components of surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs), the epidemiological principles and methods for the field investigation of VPD outbreaks, methods to measure vaccine coverage and vaccine programme performance including seroepidemiological methods, vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, principles of vaccine adverse events surveillance, introduction to transmission and modelling of VPDs, basic principles of decision-making to introduce new vaccines, and acceptance of vaccines.

:This course covers the concepts and methods of vaccine-preventable disease epidemiology and the science of vaccinology. The course can be taken independently or in combination with the Essentials of Infectious disease epidemiology course ( 2 ECTS).