The IDCC is a comprehensive, and standardized global evidence on the cost of delivering vaccines. The Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC) was built to answer a question frequently asked by...
This COVID-19 Maternal Immunization Resource Library is a central place to host links to global and country-specific research and data, guidance, tools, publications, and other resources related to...
The alternatives database is a web tool, developed by the Health Care Without Harm Global Team, to help staff responsible for procuring healthcare waste treatment technologies to identify...
Data collected by the WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and the Sabin Vaccine Institute showed that country lockdowns measures had substantially hindered the delivery of immunization services in at least 68...
The document provides an overview of the different observational studies that are being conducted to assess the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination, including key features in terms of study design,...
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
Immunisation is one of the most cost-effective interventions to prevent and control life-threatening infectious diseases among children. Nonetheless, rates of routine vaccination of children in low-...
The COVID-19 Maternal Immunization Tracker (COMIT) is the first resource to provide a global snapshot of public health policies that influence access to COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant and lactating...
The purpose of the Program is to provide no-fault lump-sum compensation in full and final settlement of any claims to eligible individuals who suffer a serious adverse event resulting in permanent...
The EVM Assessment Tool is a Microsoft Windows based application used to describe the supply chain structure and generate appropriate EVM questionnaires (Excel workbooks) for each of the facilities...
National governments require economic data on the burden of influenza disease, the cost effectiveness of the vaccine, and the projected implementation costs of a maternal influenza immunization...
The COVID -19 pandemic response requires worldwide solidarity. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has a public health imperative to ensure that its resources are used to support countries...
The MI4A/V3P vaccine purchase database contains information on vaccine prices, volumes, manufacturers, procurement modalities, contract length and more as reported by over 150 countries.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends standing orders for vaccinations—when used alone or when combined with additional interventions—to increase vaccination rates among...
In order to assist programme managers develop optimal immunization schedules, WHO has compiled key information on its current routine immunization recommendations into three summary tables.
As one of its four major objectives, the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018 (the Endgame Plan) calls on countries to introduce at least 1 dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)...
eTool: An etool based on the framework for decision making has been developed. The intended audience for the eTool includes UNICEF and WHO staff, government and partner agencies who are expected to...
In 2011, WHO and a group of partners developed a strategic document on vaccine safety called the Global Vaccine Safety Blueprint. This document sets out indicators that aim to ensure that all...
The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) was established in 1999 to respond promptly, efficiently, and with scientific rigour to vaccine safety issues of potential global...
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks occurring in humanitarian emergencies highlighted the need for a comprehensive and evidence-based decision-making framework for vaccination in humanitarian...
This new series of modules on immunization training for Mid-level Managers (MLM) replaces the last version which was published in 1991.
There have been many changes in the world of immunization...
As part a life-course approach to immunization, the importance of strengthening platforms for administering vaccines and other health interventions in the second year of life (2YL) is...
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization in 1999 to provide guidance on the work of WHO. SAGE is the...
The global effort to eradicate polio has been one of the largest public health initiatives in history. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is composed of a large workforce of frontline...
The global effort to eradicate polio has been one of the largest public health initiatives in history. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is composed of a large workforce of frontline...
This page presents the background information, programmatic considerations, implementation experiences and materials available related to the fractional dose administration of IPV. This is a...
Containment includes biosafety and biosecurity requirements for laboratories, vaccine production sites, or any other facility that handles or stores eradicated polioviruses, to minimize the risk of...
This page makes available existing guidelines and tools related to immunization financing and targeted at immunization service managers, policy-makers, researchers, international donors and health...
The primary objective of an immunization coverage survey is to provide a coverage estimate for selected vaccines or a set of vaccines (fully vaccinated for age) among infants, children and/or women...
Most of the data compiled on these pages is derived from official reports by WHO Member States and unless otherwise stated, data is reported annually through the WHO/UNICEF joint reporting...
GATHER is a checklist of 18 items that should be reported every time new global health estimates are published, including descriptions of input data and estimation methods. Developed by a working...
The DQR framework and toolkit is meant to support routine, annual and periodic independent assessments of facility-reported data. It is designed to assess the quality of data generated by...
A well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system registers all births and deaths, issues birth and death certificates, and compiles and disseminates vital statistics,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) measles programmatic risk assessment tool was developed to help national programmes to identify areas not meeting measles programmatic targets, and based on the...
The Quantitative Immunization and Vaccines Related Research (QUIVER) Advisory Committee was established in 2007 with the main responsibility of reviewing quantitative methods in vaccine related...
The Series “The Immunological Basis for immunization”, was initially developed in 1993 as a set of eight modules focusing on the vaccines included in the Expanded Programme on immunization...
The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), established in 2010, supports and advises the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), with the review and/or...
The HPV Vaccine Introduction Clearing House is a unique space to find WHO publications, tools and other important resources on the human papillomavirus vaccine.
The purpose is to help guide HPV...
WHO IVB has developed a generic costing and planning tool for cervical cancer prevention and control. The WHO Cervical Cancer Prevention and Costing (C4P) tool has been developed specifically to...
The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit is a software application that facilitates the assessment of within-country health inequalities. It was developed for use on desktop or laptop computers and...
This handbook explores health inequality monitoring, a specific type of health monitoring. Health inequality is the metric by which health inequity can be assessed. By extension,...
The Cold Chain Support Package (CCSP) provides commercial and technical information to enable an efficient and effective procurement process for Cold Chain products and services - thus contributing...
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention,...
More than 40 short videos teaching important Data Monitoring topics are available in English at www.immunizationacademy.com. This new initiative sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
Immunization clinical decision support (CDS) is an automated process that determines the recommended immunizations needed for a patient and delivers these recommendations to the healthcare provider....
The 3.0 versions of the Logic Specification and Supporting Data expand upon the previously published recommendations for birth to death to include risk factors that indicate or contraindicate...
Each year, UNICEF’s flagship publication, The State of the World\'s Children, closely examines a key issue affecting children. The report includes supporting data and statistics and is available in...
This document contains 3 citations for useful books, including (1) Statistical analysis with missing data, (2) Analysis of incomplete multivariate data, and (3) Guide to DHS statistics
The Cold Chain Support Package (CCSP) provides commercial and technical information to enable an efficient and effective procurement process for Cold Chain products and services
Immunization clinical decision support (CDS), more commonly referred to as evaluation and forecasting, is an automated process that determines the recommended immunizations needed for a patient and...