Date: 9 April 2020
Title: The Truth About Vaccines
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Cost: £3
Speakers: Professor Gareth Williams, University of Bristol and Dr Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Description:
In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR vaccination which was being given unquestioningly to children throughout the UK.
Coming 202 years after the first vaccination by Edward Jenner, which led to the eradication of smallpox throughout the world, this recent incident is only the latest in a long history of questioning the benefits of vaccination.
This event examines the past and present of vaccination and its opponents. Our speakers, Professor Williams and Dr Larson, will consider the history of this procedure and offer a balanced assessment of vaccination as we find it today.