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.

Scrutiny or public spectacle? How Louis Pasteur put the anthrax vaccine on trial

What an 1881 anthrax vaccine trial can teach us about building, and earning, trust in new health technologies.

8 Jul 2026

5 min read

Research summary

First anthrax vaccination in 1881 at Pouilly le Fort. (left) Emile Roux vaccinating sheep in the presence of Louis Pasteur. Drawing by J Girard, 1887. ©Institut Pasteur/Musée Pasteur. (right) Drawing by Alfred Le Petit in Le Charivari, 27 April 1882.

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Medic gives a shot to soldier near front line (SC 361229), National Museum of Health and Medicine

Defensive manoeuvres: the vaccines the military made

2 Apr 2026

14 min read

Vaccine development

1990s UK Whooping Coughs Vaccinations Magazine Advert. Credit: Retro AdArchives

The 1970s whooping cough vaccine scare

27 Oct 2025

17 min read

Whooping cough Vaccine information Vaccine safety

Portrait of Dr Robert Watt by Henry Raeburn. Credit left: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough. Credit right: Wellcome Collection

Whooping cough: a history

5 Aug 2025

13 min read

Whooping cough

Olivier and Nadine with their two children at home in Rwanda: "As young working parents, it is essential that our kids get all the vaccination they need in order for them to stay healthy and strong." Credit: Gavi/2023/Issac Nkinzingabo Rudakubana

Gavi really matters. We have 25 years of receipts to prove it

23 Jun 2025

4 min read

Routine immunisation

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

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

11 Apr 2025

11 min read

Polio Innovation

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

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