The Center of Excellence focuses on integrated vaccine and microbiological research with a focus on increasing the understanding of the immune response in prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines (including tumour vaccines) and on the containment of antibiotic resistance.

 

The Center aims to improve knowledge in several vaccine-related fields by performing different research projects, including clinical vaccine trials, epidemiological surveys and economic evaluations and infectious disease modelling.

 

CEV spreads their knowledge on all aspects of vaccination by publishing results of the research projects, both through scientific and vulgarised publications, offering teaching and training to (para)medical students, and by organising vaccine-related courses to health care professionals.

 

They aim to support public health policy making, based on our expertise in Public Health, Youth Health, Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Vaccinology; support and help target vaccination policy and public health in Flanders, Belgium, and Europe, by written as well as oral communications and; offer consultancy services in vaccine-related fields, such as vaccine research, vaccine administration, vaccination programmes, and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases.