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What: WHO, in partnership with Sabin’s Boost Community, is offering a fellowship program for national and sub-national immunisation staff to support them as they plan and implement activities for the recovery and strengthening of their countries’ immunisation programmes. When: Starting Wednesday, May 11, 2022, this cohort will participate in a comprehensive program over the course … Read More

What: This training, for the first time, ties together the interrelated threads of infodemic management, behavioral insights, and social data and intervention design into a training and rostering strategy that addresses country needs now. Trainees will be equipped with the latest tools, resources and expertise to comprehensively promote vaccine demand, supported by expertise from WHO, … Read More

This article originally appeared on World Economic Forum. Below is a brief excerpt. For the first time ever, governments across the world now understand the need to take pandemic preparedness seriously. But while there may be broad consensus in the G7 and G20 about some of the measures needed to prevent — or at least … Read More

This newsletter is available in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Network Updates NEW PODCAST AND BLOG: Overcoming Immunisation Workforce Challenges Due to COVID-19Linked Network Facilitators sat down with three health workforce experts to discuss the ongoing workforce challenges faced by immunisation programmes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how countries across the world have … Read More

This article originally appeared on the World Bank Blog. Below is a brief excerpt. In January 2021 the World Bank launched a new program to support countries to understand and reduce vaccine hesitancy using behavioral science. The work is done through social media surveys and randomized experiments, allowing us to understand people’s beliefs about COVID-19 … Read More

This article originally appeared on the Johns Hopkins University website. Below is a brief excerpt. As COVID-19 vaccines were still racing through clinical trials, a team at Johns Hopkins University developed VIRA, the Vaccine Information Resource Assistant. The chatbot debuted first as a webpage in July 2021, and later, with the marketing and technical support … Read More

13,000 teams led by women were dispatched across the southern province of Sindh to vaccinate some 12 million people over the age of 12 with COVID-19 vaccines. This dramatic intervention by the Sindh government aims to vaccinate a cohort they have struggled to reach: some 25% of residents who have not had their first dose, … Read More

The Boost Community, in partnership with People Power Health, is pleased to announce that we will again be offering Storytelling for Change, a five-week self-paced online (via mobile phone) course grounded in the practice of social movements and activism that provides an opportunity for immunization professionals to learn new skills to generate public emotion, values … Read More

While Kenya has seen the percentage of people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus gradually increase to 19%, some people – like nomadic herders – have been harder to reach. So, Kenyan authorities offered an incentive – herders who get the jab can also get routine vaccinations and medicines for their livestock. To learn more, check … Read More

On the Health & Veritas podcast, Yale physician-professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz talk about the latest news and ideas in healthcare and seek out the truth amid the noise. In the latest episode, they’re joined by Dr. Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. They discuss mistakes made in the roll-out of COVID-19 … Read More