Peter Aaby

Peter Aaby (born November 6, 1944 in Lund , Sweden ) is a Danish anthropologist and epidemiologist .

Life

Peter Aaby worked from 1976 to 1978 as a scientist at the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen . From 1978 to 1980 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Ethnology in Uppsala and from 1981 to 1991 at the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a professor at the Danish national epidemiological research institute, Statens Serum Institute

Aaby founded it in 1978 and has since headed the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau , West Africa , a research project on population-based health research. At its core is a health and population monitoring system that collects information on health, diseases, vaccinations, breastfeeding, etc. from more than 100,000 people in urban and rural areas, with an emphasis on women and children. The project is based on the collaboration between the Ministry of Health Guinea-Bissau and Danish scientists from the state immunological research institute Statens Serum Institut , the Syddansk Universitet and the University of Aarhus . It is a member of the INDEPTH network for health and population monitoring in Africa, Asia and Oceania.

In evaluating the data recorded in the Bandim Health Project , Aaby documented heterologous effects of vaccines. " Heterologous effects " or "off-target effects" are non-specific effects of vaccines that go beyond the specific protective effects against the target diseases. The effects depend on both the vaccine and the gender of the infant.

Web links

• Bloomberg: Company Overview of ViroGates A / S, Executive Profile, Peter Aaby, Scientific Advisor, ViroGates A / S (accessed November 10, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine S. Benn, Mihai G. Netea, Liisa K. Selin, Peter Aaby: A small jab - a big effect. Nonspecific immunomodulation by vaccines. In: Trends in Immunology , Volume 34, Issue 9, pp. 431-439, doi : 10.1016 / j.it.2013.04.004 .