GiveWell is looking to identify programs that increase the uptake of routine childhood immunizations by bringing vaccination services closer to communities through targeted outreach sessions or mobile vaccination. We think these programs have the potential to be highly cost-effective and scalable an...

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a new op-ed, co-authored by Last Mile Health and VillageReach, that highlights how community health workers (CHWs) are driving meaningful improvements in vaccine access across Africa — especially for zero-dose and under-immunized children. The piece, published on ...

VillageReach just published a new brief calling for expanding CHWs' role in immunization services. From outreach to planning to vaccine administration CHWs can help reach more people with vaccines.  What CHW centric approaches have you seen work well in your work? What approaches would y...

Dear TechNet colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to share this with the community. In line with TechNet’s promotional policy, I am posting here to introduce my weekly newsletter and invite collaboration and feedback. What it is Immunization for Resilience is a weekly update that synthesizes...

As the mpox outbreak in the DRC and other African countries continues, it is critical to understand what it may cost to get mpox vaccines to those who are most at risk. In this blog post, Laura Boonstoppel and Flavia Moi at ThinkWell, explain why they think mpox vaccines will be much more expensive ...

The importance of immunization for child survival underscores the need to eliminate immunization inequalities. Few existing studies of inequalities use approaches that view the challenges and potential solutions from the perspective of caregivers. The USAID MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformati...

Deadline extended  Do you work on health or immunization? Are you passionate about new and innovative approaches to improving vaccination coverage? If ‘yes’, then we’d like to hear from YOU! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed a set of tools to support immunization programmes ...

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The LOGIVAC project, jointly implemented by the Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) , has launched, in collaboration with the Regional Institute of Public Health (Institut Régional de Santé Publique, IRSP), the first training degree programme in health logist...

an interview with MIT’s UAV vaccine delivery team Earlier this year, Dr. George Barbastathis and five graduate students—Nikhil Vadhavkar, Adam Pan, Vyas Ramanan, Andrew Warren, and Justin Lee—from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gate...