Global Vaccine Data Network

World Polio Day 24 October poster showing two children and three community polio vaccination workers

Polio eradication is not a distant dream — it’s a goal within reach

✅ Continue vaccination programmes
✅ Strengthen surveillance systems
✅ Prioritise health equity, especially in communities affected by conflict, displacement, or mistrust

#WorldPolioDay #VaccinesWork #HealthEquity #PolioEradication

Thank you to the team at Navrongo Health Research Centre for your hospitality as we progress the important work of the BRAVE (Background Rates of Adverse Events) Study.
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Danish cohort study just out:

✅ Aluminium exposure from vaccines = no increased risk for autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders

✅ Kids with more aluminium exposure had slightly lower rates of autism & ADHD

✅ 1.2 million children

✅ 1997–2020

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

HHS 'FAQ' Distorts Data on COVID-19 Vaccination During Childhood and Pregnancy - FactCheck.org A document the Department of Health and Human Services distributed to members of Congress to justify recent changes to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations misrepresented scientific research to make unfou...

HHS purposely misrepresents GVDN Global observed vs. expected COVID vaccine safety study and other legitimate studies.

Read the full fact checking of that HHS report here www.factcheck.org/2025/06/hhs-...

Study of 230M+ people across 20 sites confirms:

⚡ COVID-19 disease = ↑ risk of GBS

⚡ Adenoviral vaccines = ↑ risk of GBS

⚡ mRNA vaccines = ✅ safe re: GBS

Real-world data matters.

📖 Study: doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127291

World Immunization Week 2025 World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines are on...

Immunisation for all is humanly possible

Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Over the last 50 years, essential vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives. That’s 6 lives a minute, every day, for five decades.

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Evaluating Credibility in Social Media Posts - Public Health Communications Collaborative In the United States, the average person spends more than two hours a day on social media, and more than half of U.S. adults occasionally use social media to

Not all opinions nor social media posts are equal.
Check out this resource to help assess whether what we are reading and who posted it are trustworthy sources of information.

publichealthcollaborative.org/communicatio...

Poster images advertising the LMIC and non-LMIC awards.

The International Society for Vaccines (ISV) is organising the 2025 ISV Congress taking place in South Africa from October 28–30, 2025. They are excited to offer awards for Early Career Researchers and PhD students from both LMIC (Low- and Middle-Income Countries) and non-LMIC countries.

Welcome to the dark ages, where the stakes have never been higher From the University of Auckland - Opinion: The appointment of conspiracy theorist RFK Jr as US Secretary of Health and Human Services is a catastrophe for public health.

Commentary on RFK Jr's appointment:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/04/w...

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Rise of vaccine distrust - why more of us are questioning jabs Confidence in all types of vaccination has taken a hit. The question is why, and what can be done about it?

An excellent and very sobering summary of the changing landscape of confidence in vaccines.

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GVDN is looking forward to partnering with institutions in five African countries and CEPI for this important work.

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Deliberate disinformation campaigns are a public health risk – but NZ has no effective strategy to deal with it Studies have repeatedly shown false claims spread on social media and influence public perceptions, to the detriment of public health. But strategies to combat disinformation remain elusive.

My restrained rant about disinformation and gentle call to action. theconversation.com/deliberate-d...

The Real Truther linked real footage of Robert F Kennedy denying he made antivaccination statements or recommendations with footage of when he made them. TRT also debunks RFK Jr's disinformation with credible citations.

It's a watch worth sullying oneself with a visit to X.

x.com/thereal_trut...

The Real Truther linked real footage of Robert F Kennedy denying he made antivaccination statements or recommendations with footage of when he made them. TRT also debunks RFK Jr's disinformation with credible citations.

It's a watch worth sullying oneself with a visit to X.

x.com/thereal_trut...

Anti-vaccine Propaganda about Skyrocketing Chronic Diseases Are we sicker than ever before?

Refute misinformation - debunk fake claims about vaccines.
stopantivaxpropaganda.substack.com/p/anti-vacci...

‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’

Sobering account of the measles epidemic and a timely reminder of the bad actors. Investigative Journalism at its best. 👍 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’

A sobering read, is this forewarning of the future for vulnerable populations around the world?

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Simultaneous vs Sequential mRNA COVID-19 and Inactivated Influenza Vaccines This randomized clinical trial compares reactogenicity, safety, and short-term health-related quality-of-life outcomes after simultaneous vs sequential receipt of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 and inf...

Results from this RCT assessing simultaneous vs sequential administration of mRNA COVID-19 and quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccines support the option of simultaneous administration of these vaccines. Reactogenicity was comparable in both groups.

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My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Twenty years ago, I had a one-hour conversation with RFK Jr. In his current campaign for president, he has referred to that conversation during public appearances. It’s time to set the record straight

20 years ago Robert F Kennedy Jr sandbagged Paul Offit. Read Offit's blog about that encounter on substack and the litany of RFK Jr's misrepresentations and fabrications since. pauloffit.substack.com/p/my-convers...

Drawing of zombie researchers taking a study from a crypt.

VAERS misuse: The zombie practice that keeps coming back
Today’s episode: The one about the strokes after COVID-19 vaccine.
Read our blog debunking a study misusing Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data that arose from the crypt.
www.globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/news/VAERS_m...

Need the facts to address the epidemic of fast-growing, aggressive conspiracists, oops i mean cancers that are a recent internet invented and diagnosed condition?

Read our blog ‘Turbo Cancer’ and mRNA: The myth that defies biology and physics

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Read our latest Safety by Numbers newsletter to learn about "Detecting and addressing false information" and read updates from our newsletter collaborating partners.

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