Ethiopia establishes collaborating centre with Korea for joint vaccine research

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), established by the Government of Ethiopia in collaboration with Save the Children Organizations of Norway and Sweden, held a ceremony recently to launch the AHRI-IVI Collaborating Center. The AHRIIVI Collaborating Center is a research and training site to advance vaccines for global health. Collaborators from both organisations will conduct vaccine research and clinical development, engage in disease surveillance and policy studies, provide training across vaccinology, and support vaccine introduction programmes. The AHRI-IVI Collaborating Center is the third of its kind, joining a network of IVI Collaborating Centers in Ghana and Madagascar with the aim of co-developing research projects and building in-country capacity. Recently, IVI and AHRI launched the first round of a mass vaccination campaign to provide 100,000 residents of Ethiopia with oral cholera vaccine (OCV).