Global Immunization Meeting: Webcast

Participate in the Global Immunization Meeting live via the web!

The Global Immunization Meeting, 1-3 Feb 2010, will be webcast in real time, allowing anyone globally to see the presentations being given and hear the speakers and audience. You could even pose questions via a proxy within the audience. Register now at:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/397984192

Once registered, you will receive an email confirming your registration with information you need to join the Webinar.

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New Project Announcement (ARISE): Call for Input
by Robert Steinglass

The Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials (ARISE) project is a two-year learning initiative, managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. JSI is partnering with AED-ARTS, LLC on the project. ARISE is also in the process of identifying an African organization and a research institute as collaborators on the project. ARISE will work with partners and stakeholders to identify, review and document promising interventions leading to improved and sustained routine immunization (RI) system performance in sub-Saharan Africa. While promising interventions and innovations are taking place throughout the region, many have not been systematically captured nor shared. The project will explore how promising interventions are being implemented, adapted, diffused, sustained and scaled up. Evidence-based solutions will be translated into clear and focused options for investments by global, national and local communities.

As a first step, ARISE is conducting a Landscape Analysis to identify a wide range of promising interventions, innovations, and factors in RI system performance as candidates for further, in-depth exploration. 

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SIGN Meeting 2009: HCWM Presentations II

Access the HCWM presentations that were made at the annual meeting of the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), which was held from 30 November to 2 December 2009:

1. Non-Incineration Medical Waste Treatment Pilot Project at Bagamoyo
   District Hospital, Tanzania: Ruth Stringer
2. HCWM: Introduction to Vaccination Campaign: Yves Chartier
3. Monitoring Tool “Implementation of National Healthcare Waste Management Plans”: Ute Pieper

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Epidemiologist Position in Cambodia: CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking for an epidemiologist to evaluate the impact of JE vaccination in Cambodia. The incumbent's primary responsibilities will be to: 1) Plan and implement comprehensive meningoencephalitis surveillance in selected sites; 2) Plan and implement a pilot JE vaccination campaign; 3) Monitor campaign implementation and results; 4) Supervise province-based staff in Cambodia; and 5) Ensure dissemination of project findings through publications and presentations at meetings and conferences.

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Polio Pipeline Newsletter: 5

The Polio Eradication Research and Product Development team at the World Health Organization is pleased to bring you the fifth edition of the Polio Pipeline newsletter.

This issue gives an update on the outcomes of the recently-held Polio Research Committee, highlights ongoing research needs in particular on further understanding mucosal immunity in India and addressing low vaccine coverage in Nigeria, and outlines new approaches such as the Short Interval Additional Dose (SIAD) strategy.

We invite you to explore the contents of Polio Pipeline and see what else is new in the world of research in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.  Please note that the newsletter is also available on www.polioeradication.org.

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