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Against vaccine assay secrecy
Increasing the transparency of the evidence base behind health interventions such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices, has become a major point of critique, conflict, and policy focus in recent years. Yet the lack of publicly available information regarding the immunogenicity assays u...
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Taylor & Francis
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25826194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/21645515.2014.980194 |
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author | Herder, Matthew Hatchette, Todd F Halperin, Scott A Langley, Joanne M |
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description | Increasing the transparency of the evidence base behind health interventions such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices, has become a major point of critique, conflict, and policy focus in recent years. Yet the lack of publicly available information regarding the immunogenicity assays upon which many important, widely used vaccines are based has received no attention to date. In this paper we draw attention to this critical public health problem by reporting on our efforts to secure vaccine assay information in respect of 10 vaccines through Canada's access to information law. We argue, under Canadian law, that the public health interest in having access to the methods for these laboratory procedures should override claims by vaccine manufacturers and regulators that this information is proprietary; and, we call upon several actors to take steps to ensure greater transparency with respect to vaccine assays, including regulators, private firms, researchers, research institutions, research funders, and journal editors. |
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spelling | pubmed-45143572016-02-03 Against vaccine assay secrecy Herder, Matthew Hatchette, Todd F Halperin, Scott A Langley, Joanne M Hum Vaccin Immunother PUBLIC HEALTH/Commentary Increasing the transparency of the evidence base behind health interventions such as pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices, has become a major point of critique, conflict, and policy focus in recent years. Yet the lack of publicly available information regarding the immunogenicity assays upon which many important, widely used vaccines are based has received no attention to date. In this paper we draw attention to this critical public health problem by reporting on our efforts to secure vaccine assay information in respect of 10 vaccines through Canada's access to information law. We argue, under Canadian law, that the public health interest in having access to the methods for these laboratory procedures should override claims by vaccine manufacturers and regulators that this information is proprietary; and, we call upon several actors to take steps to ensure greater transparency with respect to vaccine assays, including regulators, private firms, researchers, research institutions, research funders, and journal editors. Taylor & Francis 2015-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4514357/ /pubmed/25826194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/21645515.2014.980194 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
spellingShingle | PUBLIC HEALTH/Commentary Herder, Matthew Hatchette, Todd F Halperin, Scott A Langley, Joanne M Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title | Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title_full | Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title_fullStr | Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title_full_unstemmed | Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title_short | Against vaccine assay secrecy |
title_sort | against vaccine assay secrecy |
topic | PUBLIC HEALTH/Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25826194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/21645515.2014.980194 |
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