Building immunization decision-making capacity within the World Health Organization European Region

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• Alternative Title:
  Vaccine
• Personal Author:
  Mosina, Liudmila ; Datta, Siddhartha Sankar ; Shefer, Abigail ; Cavallaro, Kathleen F. ; Henaff, Louise ; Steffen, Christoph A. ; Jacques-Carroll, Lisa
• Description:
  A National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) is a multi-disciplinary body of national experts that provides evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers, assisting them in making sound immunization policy and programme decisions. The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe is working to strengthen the capacity of newly-established NITAGs and has targeted efforts on low- and middle-income countries. The Regional Office, in collaboration with WHO Headquarters and USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), developed a new training strategy and held training workshops to improve NITAGs' functioning and ability to make evidence-based recommendations. Feedback from countries that participated in trainings indicated that the updated training materials and interactive approach with follow-up technical support enabled them to align their NITAG charters and processes with WHO recommendations. To ensure continued progress, global and regional partners such as WHO and CDC should continue providing technical support to recently established NITAGs.
• Subjects:
  Advisory Committees Article Capacity Building Europe Evidence-based Decision Health Policy Immunization Immunization Programs NITAG World Health Organization
• Source:
  Vaccine. 38(33):5109-5113
• Pubmed ID:
  32563604
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10205045
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  Europe
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  33
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:21aa3b1a1856810348fed3b9df54de524e030d28318dd555602239c2f9eaec3f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/128788/cdc_128788_DS1.pdf
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