description | <p class="article-desc">Peter Aaby (Danish, born 1944 in Lund, Sweden) is trained as an anthropologist but also holds a doctoral degree in medicine. In 1978, Peter Aaby established the Bandim Health Project, a Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, which he has run ever since.</p> | Peter Aaby is a Danish anthropologist and epidemiologist. He founded the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau in 1978 and is a professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark. His research has focused on childhood infections, mortality and the proposed non-specific effects of vaccines. |
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