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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.

Whooping cough: a history

The scientists who fought pertussis, and what they lost before they won.

5 Aug 2025

13 min read

Whooping cough

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

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Nurses delivering Covishield Vaccinations to local vaccination points, in the Sundarbans, India. Gavi/2022/Benedikt v.Loebell

Stormy weather: boat-borne vaccines ferry a dose of hope to the Sundarbans

28 Apr 2022

4 min read

Climate change COVID-19 Innovation

A 1966 photograph that accompanied Merck's press release about the successful vaccine depicted Jeryl Lynn comforting the crying Kirsten as the younger girl received her vaccination with the Jeryl Lynn Strain from Dr. Robert Weibel. Credit: The National Museum of American History

Mumps: The story of the second fastest vaccine ever developed

22 Apr 2022

7 min read

Mumps Vaccine development

The preparation of measles vaccine using chicken eggs. WHO via Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)

Wanted: A vaccine against the measles

14 Apr 2022

9 min read

Measles Vaccine development Vaccine safety

Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark

Sick words: The etymology of disease

7 Apr 2022

7 min read

Malaria Rabies COVID-19

"We've seen really strong collaboration and coordination between the Bangladeshi government, COVAX, UNICEF, WHO and other development partners like USAID during the pandemic," says Gavi Bangladesh country manager Nilgun Aydogan. "Always with an eye on equity – its notable that Bangladesh has committed to the inclusion of refugees as part of their national vaccination plan." Credit: Gavi/2022/Saydul Fateheen Murad

Twelve million vaccinations in three days: how Bangladesh used a pandemic lull to shore up its defences. Credit: Gavi/2022/Saydul Fateheen Murad

1 Apr 2022

6 min read

COVID-19 COVAX

Dr Gladys Kalema Zikusoka in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Photo by UNEP Kibuuka Mukisa

Protecting health on both sides of the zoonotic frontier: Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

25 Mar 2022

9 min read

Disease Detectives Pandemic preparedness COVID-19

Rabies vaccination in Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. Lithograph by F. Pirodon, 188-, after L.-L. Gsell.. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Louis Pasteur, monster slayer

23 Mar 2022

8 min read

Rabies

Dr Margaret Agama-Anyetei: the African Union boss shaping a continent’s response to the pandemic

8 Mar 2022

8 min read

International Women's Day Gender equality

Dr Shazia Zeb: the hospital head saving lives in Pakistan

8 Mar 2022

7 min read

International Women's Day Gender equality

Captain Peter Bernard's pups in a sled harness, Collinson Point, Alaska. Photo by John Raffles Cox – Source: Canadian Museum of History

The frostbitten dog-sledders who outran an epidemic

25 Feb 2022

7 min read

Educational

Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.

6 historic experiments that helped pave the way for modern clinical research

16 Feb 2022

7 min read

HMS Centurion fires on the Nuestra Señora de la Covadonga. Despite the loss of 1700 men, most of them to scurvy, Anson’s capture of the Spanish treasure-ship redeemed his mission in the eyes of the navy and the British public. From the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" – Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license

Groundhog Day on the high seas: A fable of science communication

9 Feb 2022

6 min read

Educational

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