Peter Aaby
Peter Aaby (Danish, born 1944 in Lund, Sweden) is trained as an anthropologist but also holds a doctoral degree in medicine. In 1978, Peter Aaby established the Bandim Health Project, a Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, which he has run ever since. In 2000, Peter Aaby was awarded the Novo Nordisk Prize, the most important Danish award within health research.Aaby is credited for the discovery of non-specific effects of vaccines – i.e. effects of vaccines, which go beyond the specific protective effects against the targeted diseases. The theory of non-specific effects of vaccines was established in 1991 and later documented in several trials on measles vaccine, BCG, oral polio vaccine, DTP vaccine and smallpox vaccine. As a consequence of Aaby's work on non-specific effects of vaccines it has been recommended the WHO vaccination program in low income countries should be changed. In 2008, WHO reviewed the evidence for non-specific effects of BCG vaccine, measles vaccine and DTP vaccine, and concluded that it would "keep a watch on the evidence of nonspecific effects of vaccination". Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Ane Bærent Fisker, Christine Stabell Benn, Birgitte Rode Diness, Cesario Martins, Amabelia Rodrigues, Peter Aaby, Bo Martin BibbyGet access
Published in Journal of Tropical Medicine (2011)
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2by Carla van Tienen, Thushan I de Silva, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, Clayton O Onyango, Sheikh Jarju, Nato Gonçalves, Tim Vincent, Peter Aaby, Hilton Whittle, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Matthew CottenGet access
Published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2012)
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