Assessment 5

Question 5

The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) is the main advisory body to WHO on vaccine-related safety issues. Which of the following actions are in the remit of this committee?

Select one or more:

	A. Providing advice on vaccine safety alerts that may have a potential to cause, public concern.
	B. Develop standard case definitions for specific Adverse Events Following Immunization.
	C. Providing scientific advice on vaccine safety issues of potential global importance, for example on the use of BCG vaccine in immunocompromised individuals.
	D. Review key tools of WHO that support the investigation of adverse events following immunization, for example the WHO Information Sheets on Oberved Rates of Reactions of specific vaccines.
	E. Identify and analyse new adverse reaction signals from data submitted to the WHO global individual case safety report (ICSR) database.