The Brighton Collaboration (BC) is a non-profit global vaccine safety research network based in Basel, Switzerland.

[2] The Brighton Collaboration was launched in 2000, although the idea of the collaboration started one year earlier, following a presentation by Bob Chen at an international scientific vaccine conference in Brighton.

In his talk, he stressed the need to improve vaccine safety monitoring by developing internationally accepted standards.

[3] The Brighton Collaboration is a program of the Task Force for Global Health, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

[4] Non-funding partners of the Collaboration include the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, European Medicines Agency, Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization.