Maya Prabhu

Maya Prabhu is Deputy Editor of VaccinesWork. A writer from India and Germany currently based in Italy, she is particularly interested in the intersection of infectious disease and human culture.

A 'new medical age': 70 years of polio vaccination

12 April marks the 70th anniversary of the world’s first polio vaccine, a world-altering technology.

11 Apr 2025

11 min read

Polio Innovation

Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio. Viewing photographer (Joe Clark) in machine's mirror. Ca. 1955. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Grin and bear it: new research suggests the Vikings were sicker than we thought

19 Mar 2025

4 min read

Research summary

The Battle of Hattin, from a 13th-century manuscript of the Chronica Majora depicting the capture of the True Cross by Saladin. Credit: Matthew Paris - Cambridge, Corpus Christi College.

Giant-killers: 7 historic deaths and the diseases that did it

14 Feb 2025

19 min read

Typhoid Tetanus Diphtheria

A mother holding her child after a vaccination session at an outreach vaccination facility, part of the Reach Zero Dose Children (ZDC) campaign in Somalia. Credit: Gavi/2024/Mohamed Abdihakim Ali

Reaching the unimmunised: a VaccinesWork briefing

2 Dec 2024

4 min read

Spotlight on zero-dose children Zero-dose children

A vaccination team going on a boat (locally made with plastic barrels) to vaccinate children against typhoid in Baluchistan Province, Pakistan, following flooding in 2022. Credit: Gavi/2022/Asad Zaidi

Climate change: a VaccinesWork briefing

18 Nov 2024

3 min read

Spotlight on climate change Climate change

A lady health worker conducts a health awareness session about pneumonia in Islamabad, Pakistan. Credit: Gavi/2023/Asad Zaidi

Pneumonia: a VaccinesWork briefing

11 Nov 2024

4 min read

Pneumonia Spotlight on pneumonia

Adolescent girls proudly show the ink mark on the tip of their finger: proof that they have been vaccinated against measles and rubella during a nationwide campaign in Karachi, Sindh province, Pakistan. Credit: Gavi/2021/Asad Zaidi

Measles: a VaccinesWork briefing

4 Nov 2024

4 min read

Measles Spotlight on measles

A flight operator at Zipline in Ghana packs a drone with medical supplies for delivery. Zipline delivers medical products using drones. Credit: Gavi/2022/Nipah Dennis

Innovation in immunisation: a VaccinesWork briefing

28 Oct 2024

3 min read

Innovation Spotlight on innovation

A polio worker going for field work during door-to-door national polio campaign in UC Jalala in Texila, Pakistan. Gavi/Pakistan/Asad Zaidi

Polio: a VaccinesWork briefing

21 Oct 2024

4 min read

Spotlight on polio Polio

A group of women and girls outside at an internally displaced person's (IDP) camp in the Bonder district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: Gavi/2017/Karel Prinsloo

Health care in conflict zones: a VaccinesWork briefing

14 Oct 2024

3 min read

Spotlight on conflict and fragility Conflict & humanitarian

Thank you, and sorry: vaccination’s bone-deep debt to the animal kingdom

4 Oct 2024

5 min read

Routine immunisation

A mother and her child at a MenAfriVac (meningitis A) vaccination session in Burkina Faso. Credit: Gavi/2017/Juliette Bastin.

Meningitis: a VaccinesWork briefing

30 Sep 2024

4 min read

Spotlight on meningitis Meningitis

Rabies Virus Colorized transmission electron micrograph of rabies virus particles (orange). Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID

Vaccine profiles: rabies

27 Sep 2024

8 min read

Rabies Vaccine profiles

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