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

Autor: Mosina L; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: mosinal@who.int., Sankar Datta S; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark., Shefer A; USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS H24-2, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA., Cavallaro KF; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark., Henaff L; World Health Organization Headquarters, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland., Steffen CA; World Health Organization Headquarters, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland., Jacques-Carroll L; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Vaccine [Vaccine] 2020 Jul 14; Vol. 38 (33), pp. 5109-5113. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 17.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.077
Abstrakt: 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.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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