Linked Practitioner Perspective: Lessons from Armenia on Strengthening Health Worker Capacity to Improve Immunisation Services

During our in-person learning engagement that brought together countries from the Europe-Central Asia region to discuss Strengthening Health Worker (HW) Capacity and Performance Management, Linked Network Facilitators sat down with a few immunisation experts to learn about the rich lessons from the workshop. As part of this Practitioner Perspectives series, we hear from Karine Gabrielyan, Head of Public Health Division of the Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia, about fostering a learning culture within the immunisation programme and beyond, learnings from peer countries, and what they will take forward in their country. The video interview was conducted in English and is accompanied by Russian sub-titles.

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