Orin Levine
Vaccines, global health, researcher, advocate, father, husband, fly fisher. Gates Foundation Director but tweets are my own. #vaccineswork #globalhealth
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Maintaining Progress on Childhood Pneumonia in the COVID-19 Era. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Pneumonia claims the lives of more young children than any other disease – over 800,000 children under 5 each year worldwide are lost to this largely preventable infectious disease. The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens global progress on preventing...
UNICEF USA BrandVoice: Community Health Workers Are Yemen’s Superheroes
UNICEF and the European Union are supporting a network of community health workers and primary care facilities across Yemen.
Orin Levine
Community health workers provide essential services to hard-to-reach children every day. Thank you @UNICEF for supporting them to deliver the care their communities need during COVID-19 and beyond.
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A safer world starts with strong primary healthcare - The BMJ
The covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of the critical role that primary healthcare has in keeping our communities safe and healthy, say Orin Levine, Atul Gawande, Gina Lagomarsino, Edward Kelley, [...]More...
Virtual 5K Run. Save infants from 5 deadly diseases.
Help Teens for Vaccines Inc. raise $500 for our partner Vaccine Ambassadors to provide the pentavalent vaccine to infants in Venezuela. Register now, and run anytime between today and midnight on October 24th. You pick where and when!...
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Orin Levine
Health security starts with strengthening health systems. It’s more important than ever to prioritize #PHC by investing in strong primary health care.
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The Gavi COVAX AMC Explained
Gavi’s CEO explains how its Advance Market Commitment mechanism will make COVID-19 vaccines available to lower-income countries.
Overcoming the COVID-19 Disruption to Essential Health Services | by Anatole Manzi - Project Syndicate
It is clear that COVID-19 will persist much longer than anticipated. If countries do not take action soon to ensure the continuity of essential health services during the pandemic, the future death toll from communicable and noncommunicable diseases...
Orin Levine
At least half of the world lacks access to essential health services – and #COVID19 has made matters worse. Innovative approaches like telemedicine & integrated care can increase access to services and build resilience for crises.
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Q&A: Supporting health workers through the pandemic
Monique Vledder discusses how COVID-19 has impacted the safety and effectiveness of health practitioners in the maternal and child health space, as well as what the Global Financing Facility and its private sector partners are doing to protect and...
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Orin Levine
Health care workers in LMICs are facing major barriers to delivering high-quality maternal and child care amid #COVID19 @Monique_Vledder explains how @theGFF empowers health care workers to restore critical services for women & children.
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Report: Dr. Tore Godal Awarded with the King’s Medal of Merit - Institute of Health and Society
The King’s Medal of Merit was awarded to Dr. Tore Godal in recognition of a lifetime achievement in immunization and global health on November 23, 2019.
Daily briefing: What a ski resort outbreak can teach us about travel restrictions
A superspreader event in an Austrian town highlights what little we know about how closing borders affects an outbreak. Plus we learn that two-fifths of plants are at risk of extinction.
José Manuel Barroso named as new Chair of the Gavi Board
Gavi Board unanimously approves the selection of former Prime Minister of Portugal and President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso as its new Chair
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Erased Decades of Progress on Childhood Vaccination
According to a Gates Foundation report
Orin Levine
2020 Goalkeepers report found that 25 years of progress in immunization has been reversed in just 25 weeks due to #COVID19. We need collaboration and rapid action to ensure millions of children are protected against preventable diseases. @gatesfoundation
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A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic | by Seth Berkley, Richard Hatchett and Soumya Swaminathan - Project Syndicate
As the most ambitious pandemic-response initiative ever conceived, the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility is the best chance the world has to bring the pandemic to an end. But to succeed, COVAX requires broad international buy-in, based on the...
Orin Levine
“COVAX represents the best chance we have to provide people in all countries with rapid, fair, and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they become available.” @GaviSeth @DrRHatchett @doctorsoumya for @ProSyn
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Opinion: Our collective vulnerability
In mobilizing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the world must come together to strengthen comprehensive health systems and maintain progress on global goals in health and beyond, according to this op-ed.
Orin Levine
Comprehensive health systems are key to beating #COVID-19. @VBKerry considers how investing in systems can maintain progress on global goals by improving training, infrastructure and primary care.
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Humanizing quantitative data: A Q&A with Chloé Roubert and Micki Semler
Understanding local contexts generates better insights about people’s lived experiences, which can help to mitigate COVID-19's effects.
The health system needs to be gender responsive to address violence against women - The BMJ
Over the last 25 years, violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, has been increasingly recognised as a human rights violation and a public health problem with [...]More...
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Orin Levine
Health systems have a critical role to play in addressing violence against women. By investing in provider training and other gender-responsive interventions, health systems can provide survivors of violence with needed care, dignity and respect.
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