By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative March 11, 2022 The need for COVID-19 vaccinations is universal, but ways of effectively administering those vaccines can vary dramatically from country to country. In Brazil, for example, the population is accustomed to mass vaccination campaigns and generally feels comfortable…

By Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative In December of 2021, VillageReach, a nonprofit with the mission of transforming health care delivery to reach everyone, was preparing to launch a COVID-19 vaccination site in Côte d’Ivoire. …

The challenges of setting up and running a COVID-19 mass vaccination site are myriad. Organizers must find a suitable location, hire or bring in qualified staff, do outreach, and obtain and maintain a good supply of the vaccine. All this takes money as well as the energy of staff and…

By Rachel Broudy Sixteen years ago, Dan Buettner studied the places in the world where people lived the longest. He went to the communities where people outlived their neighbors, with greater numbers of people living into their 90s and 100s. He called these the Blue Zones. As Mr. Buettner explored…

Written by Stephanie Schorow for the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative One of the strengths of the Global Mass Vaccination Site Collaborative has been the presentations by organizations and individuals from all over the world about their approaches to setting up and running COVID-19 vaccination sites. On Nov. 19 and…

The below summarizes an October 22, 2021 meeting of the Global Mass Vaccination Collaborative, led by Ariadne Labs. For information on previous meetings of the Global Mass Vaccination Collaborative, read our past blog posts. The joyous dance of samba plays a prominent role in Brazilian culture. Now samba schools are…

By Erik Fromme For many, a conversation about what would matter most if they became seriously ill seems like an uncomfortable topic. And yet, now that Americans are more polarized than at any time since the Civil War era, now that serious illness is a daily news headline, and now…

By Merrick Schaefer, Julie Rosenberg, Iman Ahmad, Ariel Frankel, and Rebecca Weintraub The Ministry of Health just established the COVID-19 Recovery Task Force to get the entire population of your country vaccinated as efficiently and equitably as possible. You are being brought on to develop a strategy and manage the roll out and scale up of Digital Health applications to expedite vaccination. You must navigate the challenges of generating demand for the vaccine, allocating the vaccines from COVAX, distributing the vaccine, and verifying coverage in the midst of arising shocks to the health system. Are you up for the challenge?

By Yara Altaher, MPH No American politician would ever come out against motherhood. Allocating money for moms, however, can be another matter. Often advocates and leaders lack the information needed to make a case for centering people giving birth in local planning, policymaking, or programming — even though maternal health…