Brighton Collaboration

The Brighton Collaboration
Service Mark of the Brighton Collaboration Foundation
Formation 2000 (2000)
Type NPO
Headquarters Basel, Switzerland
Region served
Worldwide
Official language
English
Leader Jan Bonhoeffer, president
Website www.brightoncollaboration.org

The Brighton Collaboration (BC) is a non-profit global vaccine safety research network for health care professionals, named after the city in England where the idea was first formulated.

The Brighton Collaboration was launched in 2000 The idea of the collaboration started in 1999, following a presentation by Bob Chen at an international scientific vaccine conference in Brighton, U.K. In his talk, he stressed the need to improve vaccine safety monitoring by developing internationally accepted standards.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Chen RT. Vaccine risks: real, perceived and unknown. Vaccine 1999
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