International Conference on Individual and Population Immunity to Respiratory Viruses, held on November 8-10, 2023 2023 年 11 月 8 至 10 日舉行了以「個人和群體對呼吸道病毒的免疫力」為題的國際性會議 Short Biography of Project Coordinator Professor Ben Cowling is currently Chair Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Helen and Francis Zimmern Professorship in Population Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, and co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control. He conducts research on the epidemiology and control of respiratory infections, particularly respiratory virus infections including COVID-19 and influenza. He’s a Clarivate Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” since 2021 and among the “top 1% most cited scientists” since 2014. Project Summary Influenza causes more health impact than any other infectious disease in Hong Kong, each year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Influenza vaccines are the most used seasonal vaccines in the world (more than 500 million doses administered worldwide each year, more than 1 million in Hong Kong), but their effectiveness is not as good as we would like in some years. This funded project has been studying human immunity to influenza with the aim of improving our scientific knowledge, enhancing efficiency of vaccines, and more generally reducing the health impact of influenza in Hong Kong each year. We redirected efforts towards COVID-19 research in the first two years of the pandemic, making important contributions to evidence-based policies to reduce the impact of the pandemic. 項目概要 在 2019 冠狀病毒病（COVID-19）大流行之前，流感相對其 他傳染病，每年對香港公眾的健康問題影響較大。 流感疫苗是世界上最常用的季節性疫苗（全球每年使用劑量 超過 5 億劑，香港超過 100 萬劑），但有時候其抗病效果不似 預期。 此資助項目研究人類對流感的免疫力，加強我們的科學知識， 提升疫苗有效性，以減低流感每年對香港公眾健康問題的影 響。 首兩年此項目重點轉為 2019 冠狀病毒病大流行研究，為減少 大流行影響的實證政策作出了重要貢獻。 項目統籌人簡介 高本恩現為香港大學公共衞生學院的流行病學講座教授、流 行病和生物統計學分部主任及施玉榮伉儷基金教授席 ( 民眾健 康 )，同時擔任世界衞生組織傳染病流行病學及控制合作中心 聯席總監。高教授從事有關呼吸道感染流行病學及控制的學術 研究，特別是 2019 冠狀病毒病和流感等呼吸道病毒感染。 2021年起他入選科睿唯安「最廣獲徵引研究人員」，2014 年起 躋身「獲徵引次數位於前 1% 的科學家」。 10 Control of In uenza: Individual and Population Immunity 流感控制：個人和群體免疫力 T11-712/19-N Project Coordinator Professor Benjamin John COWLING The University of Hong Kong 項目統籌人 高本恩教授 香港大學 Participating Institutions The Chinese University of Hong Kong The University of Melbourne 參與院校 香港中文大學 墨爾本大學 THEME 主題 1 | Understanding Diseases and Disease Prevention 剖析疾病及疾病預防
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