About VACSATC

 - Aiming to decrease morbidity and mortality and stop transmission of vaccine preventable diseases.

 There were multiple reasons for the project:

• Both the infectious agents and rumours and concerns about vaccine safety cross country borders. The problems cannot be resolved by action in one single country.
• Further improvements could be made through collaboration building on the experiences from many countries.
• Collaboration with participation of centres of excellence will lead to improved
  quality and rapid dissemination of best practices.
• Collaboration is a rational use of resources and can reduce duplication of work.
• Public health is often inadequately funded as resources from national sources
  are not made available.

 Partner Institutions

• Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (coordinating partner), Sweden
• Federal Ministry for Health, Austria
• Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
• Medical Association of Barcelona, Spain
• National Institute of Public Health, Romania
• National Institute of Hygiene, Poland
• Gazi University, Turkey
• National Centre for Epidemiology, Hungary
• University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Sachs Children's Hospital, Sweden
• Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
• University of Florence, Italy
• Health Board, Estonia
• Department of Health, England
• National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Bulgaria

 Collaborating institutions

• The Spanish Association of Vaccinology, Spain
• WHO-Geneva WHO-EURO, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Department of Informatics, Lund University, Sweden
• Sociedad Espanola de Medicina y Comunitaria, Madrid, Spain
• University of Alicante, Spain