[caption id="attachment_11263" align="alignleft" width="568"] Vaccines can be an important entry point for children and families to the rest of the primary healthcare system Image: REUTERS/Nicky Loh[/caption] By Keith Klugman When I completed my medical degree in South Africa in 1981, the country had one of the highest...
This is a social media toolkit for the Devex article 10 signs we’re winning the fight against pneumococcal disease, by Maria Deloria Knoll, PhD. Dr. Knoll is a senior scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also serves as the associate director of science...
Illnesses Don’t Discriminate: Vaccines Work Authored by Carolyn Miles and William Moss. Carolyn Miles is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children US. William Moss, MD, MPH is the Interim Executive Director at the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Parents...
Authored by Dr Kate O’Brien, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), and Professor of International Health and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Gavi/2013/Adrian Brooks When it comes to stopping childhood pneumonia, the odds are stacked against the poor and vulnerable;...
Authored by Cammie Lee and Kelly Toves. Originally posted at Research for Development, here. Editor’s Note: I recently caught up with Cammie Lee, program director for R4D’s market shaping practice. In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing examples about how this approach is being applied to improve access to...
Authored by Yewedalem Tesfaye, Yosef Alemu, and Viviana Rivas. Originally posted at Results For Development, here. Pneumonia is the leading killer of children under 5 globally. Approximately one million children die from pneumonia each year, and most of these deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries. Highly effective and...
Authored by Bruce Innis, Global Head, Respiratory Infections & Maternal Immunization, PATH Center for Vaccine Access and Immunization, and AMI Strategic Leadership & Sadaf Khan, PATH Senior Program Officer and AMI Maternal & Newborn Health Technical Advisor. [caption id="attachment_11442" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo credit: PATH/Gabe Bienczycki[/caption] By getting vaccinated...
Authored by Cyril Engmann, member of AMI’s Strategic Leadership Team and Program Lead for Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Nutrition at PATH, and Jessica Fleming, Director of AMI and Maternal Immunization Delivery Lead for PATH. [caption id="attachment_11439" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] RSV maternal immunization, if successful, could empower women to...
To mark the tenth annual World Pneumonia Day, we gathered for an event highlighting the global fight against this leading killer of children. We reviewed progress made in the prevention and treatment of pneumonia over the last decade, and discussed the path forward as we...
Authored by JustActions. In a 2016 address titled, “The Future of Aid for Health”, Larry Summers argued that there should be a “substantial reallocation” of foreign health aid towards global public goods, such as developing medicines and vaccines for diseases of poverty; managing cross-border externalities (e.g....
We all have a role to play in ending pneumonia deaths by 2030
