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The Boost Community, in partnership with the USAID-funded MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project, will convene a four-week virtual short-course on gender and immunization starting June 23 to increase immunization professionals’ competency and confidence around planning and developing gender-aware and -transformative activities to improve equity in immunization. What will I learn? After completing this … Read More

Want to ensure that the views of civil society are heard and engaged throughout Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance? Submit your nomination to join the Gavi Civil Society Organization (CSO) Steering Committee by May 31st. The Civil Society Constituency advises Gavi on its policies and practices and supports the implementation of Gavi’s activities. There are currently … Read More

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