Benefit

1. Access to Vaccine 
For the $100 membership fee each member will acquire access to all the issues of the journal Vaccine that have been published in an electronic and searchable form. They may download and print the particular papers they require for special attention.
2. Subsidised conference fees
Following the successful 25th anniversary conference in Amsterdam in December, 2007, (370 attendees) Elsevier would be willing to partner with the ISV a series of conferences to be run annually. Members of the ISV would be able to attend at a significantly discounted participation fee. (This, plus the value of the electronic journal may equal the Membership fee)

• CPD certification;  These conferences will count towards certification of continued professional development.
• Bursaries for young Vaccinologists;  The society will seek to accumulate funds such that it will be able to provide bursaries to young researchers and practitioners in the field to attend conferences (subsistence plus conference fee).  This will provide educational and professionally relevant training to the next generation of Vaccinologists. It will also enable introductions at the personal level that are important in the development of careers.
• Interprofessional-interactions; The conference is an opportunity for those engaged in research to meet up with colleagues in development, production, assay, marketing , equipment manufacture, component production, and those engaged in international organisation who are working on national and international problems of the curbing of infectious disease.
  

• Jobs, Products, Equipment publicity;  The newsletter may provide facilities for job advertisements and publicity for new products and equipment.
• Email alert; provide members with a personal email alert should some event of outstanding significance occur.
• Publicise good people; The society will provide members with the benefits of recognition for outstanding service, performance or invention in the area of Vaccines and Vaccination. This will receive publicity via the news letter and Web site.

4. Establish a Web presence
Members will have privileged access to a Web site that will contain information pertinent to satisfying the requirements of Vaccinolgists. Examples of this might be a meeting calendar, organisations that may discount books, newspapers etc., members contact details (email), information about the society and how to join it, membership application forms, advanced notice of conferences, talk-rooms, conference abstracts and etc.
5. Liase with the press and media
It is possible for a society to form a relationship with the news media to provide expert opinion on issues related to vaccines and vaccination. This society would be the first port-of-call for those in the media who want specialists to provide material on defined topics; the society would hold in its members data base information as to who might be approached for different subject areas.
6. Liase with Regulatory Agencies
Members would benefit from representations to such agencies that was profession based rather than based on a particular interested party. In this way the commercial interests of practitioners would not be in the front line.
7. Challenge the Anti-vaccinationists 
The members would benefit from having a society whose representatives may express with authority views that can allay the fears of vaccination that are exacerbated and elaborated by the Anti-vaccine movements.
8. Professionalisation of Vaccinologists 
The society will provide members with a route by which they can become certified professionals in the manner of Doctors, Lawyers, Pharmacists etc. This status is of considerable benefit as it establishes a relationship between the practitioner and the members of his/her society such that the former publicly and openly commits to seek to benefit the citizens and not to harm them.

• Recognition of probability of harm 
  Members will have the opportunity to develop materials for the media so as to educate the society at large that on occasion it is impossible to achieve massive benefits without the incurring of some harm to some special individuals. While every effort is made to identify people who might suffer from the vaccine and therefore desist from their vaccination, it is inevitable that some parents or children will be made ill or even permanently damaged. Clearly there is compensation for such events and it is up to the membership to help society come to terms with these conditions.

• Bioterroris; Members would have opportunities to discuss with their colleagues how they and the members of their wider societies might prevent as well as deal with biological disasters that have been caused deliberately.