26 Jan 2012
The Economist interviewed CDDEP friend and collaborator
Petra Klepac on optimal vaccination strategies, asking, under
what circumstances does it make good economic and epidemiological sense to
invest your resources in vaccinating neighboring communities?
17 Jan 2012
January 13th marked a full year since the last reported polio case in India - a major milestone for public health. Can India take this success to other health challenges in the country, including other vaccine-preventable diseases? Ramanan Laxminarayan, CDDEP Director and Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India, joined CNN-IBN to discuss the issue with Dr. Nata Menabde of the WHO. Watch below:
28 Jul 2011
We can only wonder about the fallout from the recent
revelation of a CIA-organized
vaccination campaign in Pakistan, which concurrently collected DNA
samples in the hopes of pinpointing the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Pakistan, already a harbor of suspicion towards
global vaccination efforts, is also considered to be a ground-zero for
polio eradication.
22 Jun 2011
With GAVI's enormous fundraising success last week,
there is great hope within the global vaccine community. In the middle of the conversation about strategy is India – a test case for worldwide vaccination efforts. Approximately 27 million children are
born in India each year – the largest birth cohort in the world – but less than
44% receive a full schedule of vaccinations.
10 Jun 2011
The "global decade of vaccines" is upon us. Such was the call to action issued by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2010.
For their part, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 billion over the next
decade to supplement vaccination programs worldwide.
