CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official

CDC Awards Grant for Studying Hepatitis B Vaccine in African Country

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is helping fund a study to test the effects of early hepatitis B vaccination in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, the agency said on Dec. 18. The CDC is granting $1.6 million to the University of Southern Denmark, according to a funding notice. It will fund a randomized, controlled trial that will feature more than 14,000 infants, some of whom will receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth …

CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official

The $1.6 million grant, to study the hepatitis B birth dose in Guinea-Bissau, has concerned experts who say the study design may be unethical.

CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has repeatedly pointed to Denmark's less stringent immunization requirements. Tom Williams/APThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending $1.6 million to a Danish vaccine research group with ties to the U.S. anti-vaccine movement to study the effects of the hepatitis B vaccine in infants in West Africa.Notice of the new grant — which the University of Southern Denmark submitted to the CDC "uns…