Journal Club

The VAC4EU Journal Club is a monthly appointment for members of VAC4EU and for its community. It exists for people with a common passion and curiosity for vaccine research. The Journal Club is fun! It is not time to speak about our own work or deadlines, but rather a place to share open questions, doubts, and progress in our understanding of interesting topics thanks to the interaction with each other. It is a place where we are not afraid that our questions are too naive.

During the Journal Club, a speaker presents a published paper of his or her choice. The paper may cover any topic related to vaccine research, from methodological issues, to results of relevance, to curious findings. The speaker is free to take the opportunity of the Journal Club to better understand a paper with the help of the critical discussion with the audience: the conversation is highly interactive, open and informal!

The VAC4EU Journal Club is

An appointment where we share our passion for vaccine research

A place where we share curiosity

A place where we share questions and doubts, and look together for answers

The VAC4EU Journal Club is not

A place to disseminate our work

A work appointment

Previous Appointments

Mahmoud Zidan

26 July 2024

University of Oslo

Norway

Quasi-experimental methods for pharmacoepidemiology: difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods with case studies for vaccine evaluation (Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, 2024).

Giorgio Limoncella

22 March 2024

Department of Statistics, University of Florence
Italy

Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination (Hernandez-Diaz S et al, 2024).

Felipe Villalobos

23 February 2024

IDIAP Jordi Gol

Spain

Association between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and healthcare contacts for menstrual disturbance and bleeding in women before and after menopause: nationwide, register based cohort study (Ljung R, et al, 2023).

Judit Riera

27 October 2023

Val d’Hebron

Spain

A Comparison of Data Quality Assessment Checks in Six Data Sharing Networks (Callahan TJ, et al, 2023).

Elisa Barbieri

29 September 2023

Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Italy

Hybrid immunity against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 following a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and single dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine in children and adolescents: a target trial emulation (Gazit S, et al, 2023).

Giuseppe Roberto

28 July 2023

Agenzia regionale di sanità della Toscana

Italy

Effectiveness of mRNA vaccine boosters against infection with the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) variant in Spain: a nationwide cohort study (Monge S, et al, 2023).

Elena Dudukina

31 March 2023

Aarhus University Hospital

Denmark

Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination
 (Hernández-Díaz S, et al, 2023).

Angela Luppatelli

24 February, 2023

University of Oslo

Norway

A marginal structural model for recurrent events in the presence of time-dependent confounding: non-specific effect of vaccines on child hospitalizations (Jensen AK, et al, 2016).

Xabier García de Albéniz Martinez

25 November, 2022

RTI Health Solutions

Spain

Continuation of annual screening mammography and breast cancer mortality in women older than 70 years (García-Albéniz X, et al, 2022).

Lau Amdisen

28 October, 2022

Aarhus University Hospital

Denmark

Using big data to emulate a target trial when a randomized trial is not avaialable (Hernán MA, et al, 2016).

Sophie Bots

29 July, 2022

Utrecht University

Netherlands

Tutorial in biostatistics: the self controlled case series method (Whitaker HJ, et al, 2006).

Nicolas Thurin

17 June, 2022

BPE / Universite de Bordeaux

France

Framework for visulalizing study design and data observability in electronic health record data (Wang SV, et al, 2022).

Lin Li

27 May 2022

Sanofi

United States of America

Methods for addressing “innocent bystanders” when evaluating safety of concomitant vaccines. Wang et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2018​ (Wang SV, et al, 2019).

Rosa Gini

24 April, 2022

ARS Toscana

Italy

Theoretical Basis of the Test-Negative Study Design for Assessment of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness. (Sullivan SG, et al, 2016).

Upcoming Appointments

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