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Nature Medicine  11, S20 - S24 (2005)
Published online: ; | doi:10.1038/nm1220

Vaccines in the public eye

Paul Ritvo1, 2, Kumanan Wilson2, Dennis Willms3 & Ross Upshur2, 4: for the CANVAC Sociobehavioural Study Group. Members of the CANVAC (Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics) Sociobehavioural Study Group who contributed to this paper: Adam Goldman5, David Kelvin6, Kenneth L Rosenthal7, Aline Rinfret8, Rupert Kaul9 & Murray Krahn10

1  School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences and Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.

2  Departments of Medicine and Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.

3  Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9, Canada.

4  Sunnybrook Women's Health Science Centre, Primary Care Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada.

5  School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.

6  Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.

7  Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada.

8  Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, Montreal, Quebec H3A 3C6, Canada.

9  Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5F 1A8, Canada.

10  Departments of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.

Correspondence should be addressed to Paul Ritvo pritvo@yorku.ca
Preventive vaccines are widely acknowledged as the best hope for protection against infectious pathogens such as avian flu, HIV and SARS. As a result, they have received much recent attention in the media that has exposed some of the challenges involved in optimally using vaccine technology.

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