Vaccine Exemplars

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The vaccine exemplar project is one in a series of exemplar projects funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with Gates Ventures. These exemplar projects showcase countries that have exceeded expectations in areas such as stunting, under five mortality, community health workers, and vaccination. We seek to identify and understand “exemplar” immunization programs at a national and subnational level which performed better than their peers in driving improvements in high and sustainable vaccine coverage. The goal of the vaccine exemplar project is to generate actionable recommendations to the foundation, its partners, and to the global health community at large. We have selected three countries with exemplary vaccine coverage – Senegal, Nepal, and Zambia – and aim to show why and how these countries have succeeded in achieving significantly improved coverage rates.

This research will explore the catalysts, motivators, change management, and implementation success factors through a multidisciplinary approach. Partners in the Department of Political Science at Emory College; Goizueta Business School at Emory University; Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Yale Institute for Global Health; Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware; H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech); Scheller College of Business at GA Tech; and the School of Public Policy in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at GA Tech; provide a diverse viewpoint to assess exemplar status.

Publications

  1. Carter A, Akseer N, Ho K, Rothschild O, Bose N, Binagwaho A, Hirschhorn LR, Price M, Muther K, Panjabi R, Freeman MC, Bednarczyk RA, Bhutta ZA. A framework for identifying and learning from countries that demonstrated exemplary performance in improving health outcomes and systems. BMJ Global Health. 2020; 5(12). e002938. Doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002938

  2. Phillips DE, Bhutta ZA, Binagwaho A, Binagwaho A, Boerma T, Freeman MC, Hirschhorn LR, Panjabi R, On behalf of the Exemplars in Global Health Partnership. Learning from Exemplars in Global Health: a road map for mitigating indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5:e003430. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003430

  3. Dixit SM, Sarr M, Gueye DM, Muther K, Yarnko TR, Bednarczyk RA, Clarke AT, Diakhite F, Diallo A, Dounebaine B, Duwadi SB, Ellis AE, Fullman N, Gerthe N, Gautam J, Hester KA, Ikilezi G, Mbengue RS, Mboup S, Ndiaye BP, RajbhandariRM, Phillips DE, Freeman MC.  Addressing disruptions in childhood routine immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from Nepal, Senegal and Liberia. BMJ Global Health. 2021; Jul; 6(7): e005031. Doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005031. PMID: 34230065 PMCID: PMC8264163

Study Location

Senegal, Nepal, Zambia

 

Principal Investigators

Matthew Freeman

Robert Bednarczyk, Sameer Dixit - Nepal, William Kilembe - Zambia, Moussa Sar - Senegal

 

Collaborators

Gates Ventures, CMDN , IRESSEF - Senegal, RZHRG - Zambia

Funders

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Project Staff

Bonheur Dounebaine, Anna Ellis, Kyra Hester, Katie Micek, Emily Ogutu Awino, Zoe Sakas

 

Co-Investigators

Emory University: Miguel R. Rudea, Natália Salgado Bueno, B. Pablo Montagnes, Wesley Longhofer, Benjamin Lopman, Walter A. Orenstein, Cam Escoffery

Yale University: Saad Omer

Georgia Institute of Technology: Pinar Kesinocak, Dima Nizzal

University of Delaware: Kimberley Isett