Our network-wide survey launched on 1 May, and we hope you will take the time to fill it out. Your responses will help us understand how Linked’s collaborative learning approach has contributed to your country’s progress toward Gavi’s MICs Approach objectives and how we can continue to adapt our approaches to be responsive and effective … Read More
Find the latest news related to achieving sustainable and equitable immunisation programmes, as well as the archive of past Linked newsletter issues.
Linked Community News April 2025
This newsletter edition is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. We hope everyone had a productive and successful World Immunisation Week! Did you lead a campaign, hold an event, produce a resource,host a social media live chat, or anything else to celebrate? If so, we would love to hear about it! Send your stories … Read More
Linked Steering Committee Spotlight: Dafina Gexha-Bunjaku
Linked Network Facilitators chatted with representatives from the Steering Committee to learn more about their experiences working in immunisation, what they are most looking forward to from the network, as well as some fun, personal facts about themselves. This spotlight features Dafina Gexha-Bunjaku, Deputy Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Kosovo. Welcome to the Linked … Read More
Linked Community News February 2025
This newsletter edition is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Keep reading below for critical resources and to uncover key insights for addressing vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, successfully introducing the HPV vaccine, costing of interventions to reach zero-dose children, and more. First, we have two newly published country case studies that center the importance … Read More
Call for contributions and save the date for the Immunization Economics IHEA 2025 Pre-Congress in Bali
Ahead of the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) World Congress in Bali, we are inviting contributions for oral presentations or suggestions for panel discussions at the Immunization Economics Pre-Congress taking place from July 19 – 20, 2025. All submissions are welcome: ongoing research, presentations on methods, as well as proposals for panel discussions or training sessions. The closing date … Read More
Linked Community News December 2024 / January 2025
This newsletter edition is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Are you interested in exploring barriers, strategies, and country experiences addressing HPV demand generation and vaccine acceptance strategies or developing national Electronic Immunisation Registries (EIR) to improve immunisation outcomes? Keep reading below to find critical resources and uncover key insights to strengthen your national … Read More
Linked Community News October/November 2024
This newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Are you interested in lessons and country experiences addressing HPV demand generation and vaccine acceptance strategies or designing and managing electronic immunisation registries (EIRs) to improve immunisation outcomes? Read below to find critical resources to learn more about how you can strengthen immunisation programming across … Read More
What is the cost of delivering vaccines through integrated campaigns? Evidence from Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Findings from bottom-up costing studies of integrated vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Sierra Leone has been published in BMC Health Services Research. The research, conducted by ThinkWell and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, estimated the costs of a campaign held in 2019 in Sierra Leone with measles-rubella vaccine and oral polio vaccine, during which nutrition … Read More
Congratulating Linked Technical Facilitator, Cristiana Toscano, on Receiving the Oswaldo Cruz Medal of Merit
Please join us in congratulating Cristiana Toscano, Linked technical facilitator and Latin American-Caribbean (LAC) focal point, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and infectious disease doctor. Cristiana was recently honored by the federal government of Brazil with the Oswaldo Cruz Medal of Merit, along with 22 other … Read More
Linked Community News August 2024
This newsletter is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. We’re excited to bring you Linked updates from two recent learning engagements, a new practitioner perspective with Honduras, and the latest evidence from the global immunisation community to strengthen your immunisation programs. In July, Linked held two in-person learning engagements. Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Honduras, with … Read More