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 global health and humanitarian signals into practical, field-ready guidance for immunization and primary health care teams. The focus is on translating evidence into action in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
General objective
To deliver timely, evidence-based weekly intelligence on global health challenges and humanitarian crises, and translate insights into practical strategies that strengthen immunization systems and build lasting public-health resilience.
Specific objectives
- Situational awareness: Summarize high-signal developments that affect immunization and PHC in humanitarian contexts.
- Evidence translation: Distill peer-reviewed research and WHO/UNICEF/GPEI guidance into concise, decision-ready takeaways.
- Risk and readiness: Flag outbreak signals and preparedness gaps, with recommended mitigation and contingency actions.
- Operational guidance: Provide step-by-step tactics, checklists, and tools for program managers and frontline teams.
- Policy and financing: Track policy shifts and financing opportunities with implications for planning and budgeting.
- Data for decisions: Visualize and interpret core indicators, including zero-dose, coverage, stockouts, surveillance timeliness, and AEFI.
- Equity and access: Address demand- and supply-side barriers among hard-to-reach and crisis-affected populations.
- Innovation and digital: Highlight pragmatic uses of DHIS2, GIS, and responsible AI that accelerate delivery and accountability.
- RCCE and trust: Share approaches to counter misinformation and improve vaccine intent and completion.
- Cross-learning: Elevate country case studies and lessons learned to scale what works.
- Accountability for impact: Include clear calls to action and simple progress metrics for follow-up in subsequent issues.
- One Health partnerships: Connect stakeholders across sectors to strengthen prevention, detection, and response.
This week’s edition
From Mystery Deaths to Ebola's Return: Why the DRC's Outbreak Cycle Keeps Repeating.
Kasai, DRC, 2025 shows how grief, distance, and thin lab capacity can turn days into deaths. The response is moving quickly, with safe and dignified burials, contact tracing, case managemengt and ring vaccination underway. Read the brief for what it will take to break the cycle.
👉 Read the full analysis in the https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-mystery-deaths-ebolas-return-why-drcs-outbreak-tambe-8l5ee
Target Audience
- EPI and PHC managers at national and subnational levels
- Implementing partners, humanitarian responders, and donors
- Technical officers, surveillance and data teams, and RCCE practitioners
- Researchers and students seeking operational insights
Editorial standards
- Evidence-based and practice-oriented
- Equity-centered, with attention to zero-dose and hard-to-reach communities
- Sensitive to operational realities in insecure and resource-constrained settings
- Transparent about data sources and limitations
Call to action
If these topics are relevant to your work, I invite you to:
- Subscribe and share feedback from the field
- Suggest topics, data needs, or country spotlights
- Contribute case studies or tools that others can reuse
How to follow and connect
- Subscribe: LinkedIn Newsletter at https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/immunization-for-resilience-7270547890631016448?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_series_entity%3BhUJdDZULTZC3FtF8IXJd6Q%3D%3D
Contact: [email protected]
With appreciation for the vital work you lead in challenging environments, and looking forward to your guidance to ensure this resource remains useful, rigorous, and responsive to operational needs.
Sincerely,
Tambe Elvis Akem, MD, MSc, MPH, FETP, ADVAC
Medical Field Epidemiologist | Health & Immunization Specialist | Advocate for Equity in Health
@Immunization for Resilience Newsletter