How Nepal’s data reshaped global vaccine policy

Patan Hospital’s research with Oxford Vaccine Group helped WHO-SAGE revise vaccine schedules and expand typhoid vaccination worldwide.

Until 2005, Nepal had to rely on evidence from studies on childhood illnesses carried out in foreign countries. However, with the generation of homegrown data from 2005 through collaboration between Patan Hospital and the Oxford Vaccine Group, the country not only introduced new vaccines in its routine childhood vaccine list and saved hundreds of lives, but also helped reshape the global vaccine policy.