:: The PneumoCarr partners

The PneumoCarr consortium consists of nine research institutes from different parts of the world (see the list below). Each of the nine institutes performs at the highest level of scientific quality and has provided data sets that complement each other in terms of study targets and designs. The majority of statistical modeling as well as project management is conducted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland.

List of the PneumoCarr partners and the names of principal investigators:

• National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection, Helsinki, Finland (Kari Auranen, PhD)
• University of Melbourne, Australia (Kim Mulholland, MD, PhD, Prof)
• MRC Laboratories, The Gambia (Martin Antonio, PhD)
• Ben Gurion University, Israel (Ron Dagan, MD, PhD, Prof)
• KEMRI, Wellcome Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast, Kilifi, Kenya (Anthony Scott, MD, PhD)
• Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, Manila, the Philippines (Marilla Lucero, MD, PhD)
• Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Witswaterstrand, South Africa (Shabir Madhi, MD, PhD; Keith Klugman, MD, PhD, Prof)
• Institute of Child Health, University College, London, UK (David Goldblatt, MD, Prof)
• Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, US (Katherine O’Brien, MD, PhD, Prof)