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Left: Prachi Singh; Right: Prachi Singh, Dr. Ruth Karron, Berhaun Fesshaye, Dr. Rupali Limaye.
IVAC Team Presents Maternal Immunization Findings in Kenya
IVAC’s Maternal Immunization Readiness Initiative (MIRI) team recently traveled to Nakuru, Kenya, to present the project’s findings to the Kenyan Ministry of Health and other maternal and child health partners. The three-day meeting included workshops to co-create strategies for vaccine demand generation, such as ideas for IEC materials for beneficiaries, trainings for healthcare providers, and policy briefs. MIRI, conducted in partnership with Jhpiego and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, conducts implementation and demand generation research to better understand decision-making and health system readiness for delivery of new and future vaccines to pregnant women in Bangladesh and Kenya.
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IVAC Health Economists Present at Global Conference
Last month, members of IVAC’s Economics & Finance Team presented at the 15th International Health Economics Assocation (IHEA) World Congress, held in Cape Town, South Africa. This year’s event was centered around diversity in health economics.
“It was great to see diversity at the forefront of an economics conference, in terms of who is conducting the research, the location of the research, the topics examined, and the economic methods adopted, especially with respect to equity, a subject which is generally at the periphery of economic evaluation,” said Bryan Patenaude, ScD, a health economist at IVAC and an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This theme aligns with IVAC’s Vaccine Economics Research for Sustainability & Equity (VERSE) project, which was highlighted throughout the conference in a number of oral presentations and posters.
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IVAC Doctoral Researcher Baldeep Dhaliwal Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Grant
Baldeep K. Dhaliwal, a doctoral researcher at IVAC and a PhD candidate in the Social and Behavioral Interventions program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has won a Fulbright research grant to work in India. This grant will support her dissertation research to study the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) program, better understand how urban ASHAs can be supported in meeting government objectives, and explore their contribution to the health of urban communities. This research aims to provide essential data to guide conversations, support advocacy efforts, and potentially facilitate policy change. |
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A recent training in Mozambique was co-organized with the Breakthrough ACTION COVID-19 team, a USAID-funded project implemented by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP).
IVAC Finishes a New Round of Vaccine Hesitancy Trainings
IVAC faculty recently conducted a series of vaccine hesitancy and misinformation trainings in Mozambique, Nigeria, and Kenya. In-person and virtual trainings funded by the SABIN Vaccine Institute have taken place in the US, India, Liberia, Guyana, Bangladesh, Cameroon, and the Philippines, with additional countries to come. The training is currently offered in English, Spanish, and French, and the IVAC team hopes to expand to regional languages in the future. Read more about the team's important work addressing vaccine hesitancy.
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Comparing the Tradeoffs of Measles Vaccine Delivery Strategies [The Lancet Global Health]
By Andrea Carcelen and Amy Winter
Measles elimination and control remain challenging as measles is one of the most contagious diseases. In a recent commentary, the authors reflected on the findings of Megan Auzenbergs and colleagues, specifically how they might develop a broad framework of tradeoffs that establishes when to allocate resources to national non-selective supplementary immunization activities or other delivery strategies for measles-containing vaccine. |
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