The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has saved 154 million lives over the last 50 years – equivalent to six lives saved every minute of every year – according to a study published in The Lancet.
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Professor Mark Jit from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences this year. Professor Jit, a professor of vaccine epidemiology and head of the department of infectious disease epidemiology, is one of 59 influential biomedical and health scientists who have been awarded the prestigious fellowship. Fellows were chosen from 353 candidates from UK institutions, with their research expertise spanning from molecular imaging to biostatistics and public health policy.