The VCP is supported by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s press office, which help journalists interested in our world-class research and expertise. The VCP’s European Regional Office is also supported by the press team at the University of Antwerp.
The press offices organise interviews with our experts around breaking news stories, features and documentaries.
Media contacts
For all media enquiries related to the VCP’s work with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, please email press@lshtm.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 7927 2802.
For all media enquiries related to the VCP’s work with the University of Antwerp, please email pers@uantwerpen.be or call +32 476 04 23 24.
LSHTM press office team members:
- Tilly Haynes – Communications Officer
- Louisa Lee – Communications Coordinator
- Paula Fentiman – Marketing & Communications Manager
University of Antwerp press office lead:
- Peter De Meyer – Spokesman
Latest news
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VCP Founder and Director Prof. Heidi Larson talks to ‘Prepared, not Panicked: The Health Crisis Podcast’ about how mis- and disinformation undermine vaccine uptake, and what the EU can do about it.
We’re pleased to share highlights from the CHIC Symposium on Advancing Sustainable HPV Vaccination Programmes in Africa. The symposium brought together stakeholders from across 20 African countries to strengthen collaboration for sustainable HPV vaccination programmes.
We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage “Autism and Vaccines” has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism, writes the Autism Science Foundation.
There’s no link between vaccines and autism, says The American Academy of Pediatrics. Anyone repeating this harmful myth is misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead parents. We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in routine immunizations.