HRC awards for outstanding health researchers

Epidemiologist Professor Colin Simpson of Victoria University of Wellington has received the Health Research Council (HRC) Liley Medal for the influential paper, published in Nature Medicine, that looked at the effectiveness and safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines using data from Scotland1.

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• HRC medal winners & Career Development Award recipients
• Medal for paper that helped allay COVID-19 vaccine safety concerns