VACCINES & TRIALS
How do Vaccines Work?
To understand how vaccines work, it helps to learn how vaccines harness the natural activity of your immune system. This short animation explains how vaccines allow the body to make the right sort of antibodies to protect against a particular disease.
Oxford lab tour
Take a virtual tour of the laboratories at the Oxford Vaccine Group, Jenner Institute and Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Oxford to see how vaccines are developed and tested. Look at the different rooms and equipment needed for scientific research.
Samantha Vanderslott/Claas Kirchhelle; Design: Matthew Evans/ 360 Virtual Tours.
Consent and Ethics
Credit: Fidelma Slattery, The 1900 Typhoid Vaccine Trial at the Richmond Asylum, 2024.
Safe and effective vaccines are an important tool for typhoid control. Early trials of first-generation vaccines showed they worked but were often conducted without informed consent. Learn more about a typhoid vaccine trial carried out in Dublin’s Richmond District Lunatic Asylum in 1900 by clicking here.
Vaccine education posters
THE HISTORY OF VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
Vaccines have played an important role in disease prevention since the late 19th century. This open access classroom resource summarises key moments in the history of vaccination and vaccine design.
HOW DO VACCINES WORK?
What is the science of vaccines and how has vaccine design changed over time?
The Cell Factory
Ever wondered what happens inside your cells when you are infected with a virus? Or wondered how the new COVID-19 vaccines work?
The answer to both of these questions can be found in how our cells receive instructions to make proteins. Actually, your cells are a bit like factories…
Credit: Concept & Script by Dr Sean Elias. Design by Ben Leighton. Developed in collaboration with Typhoidland (Dr Samantha Vanderslott) and The Vaccine Knowledge Project (Dr Tonia Thomas). Voiceover: Tom Wilkinson and Music: Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio.
