Following a call for concept notes last year, the VoVRN Secretariat, members of the Steering Committee, and external expert reviewers identified promising studies to recommend for funding. Learn more about these projects here

Although vaccines continue to protect millions against debilitating, life-threatening diseases; new WHO report starkly illustrates how easily hard-won gains are lost.. Read key messages or download full report.

Pneumonia, Diarrhea, and Measles force Bangladeshi households to make difficult financial decisions when illnesses arise. The Decade of Vaccine Economics study continues to shed light on the importance of preventing common childhood illness. Read more here

Use of behaviorally informed interventions to increase vaccination uptake: a portfolio of results from the General Service Administration's Office of Evaluation Sciences. Read more here

Focusing on the Costing of Immunization Programs, application for TVEE workshop in Jaipur will open until Nov 22nd. Recent workshops in India and Uganda covers multiple topics and utilized in-class lectures supported by case-studies and exercises. Read more here

The ICAN team hosted a webinar in October: “How to Use the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC): Presentation and Q&A session.” Access presentation and recording here

The ICAN team presented a poster on the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC) at the recent 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2018) in Liverpool, United Kingdom. see poster here

An analysis of Mozambique’s 2015 immunization spending reveals that despite adequate resources and increases in immunization coverage, challenges to the immunization program persist. Read more here

Abt’s study on the role of the private sector in immunization in Benin, Georgia and Malawi reveals that governments’ ability to regulate private sector services and promote quality and affordable services remains a challenge. Read more here

Registration has now opened for BactiVac 2nd Annual Network Meeting. The event will be held on 20 & 21 March 2019 in Birmingham, UK. Read more here

WHO-Geneva office is recruiting a Health Economist for the Supply Technology and Financing Team in EPI. This position will lead immunization financing work within the IVB department. Apply by Oct 29, 2018. See more here

The Expanded Program on Immunization Costing project (EPIC), led by Dr. Stephen Resch, aims to understand the cost and cost drivers of delivering immunization programs in low- and middle- income countries. Learn more about job opening here

This position manages the research projects in the portfolio of Professor David E. Bloom, including the Value of Vaccination Research Network (VoVRN) project, a multi-year effort to fund and encourage new research on the social and economic benefits of vaccination. Learn more about job opening here

Will you be attending the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2018), Liverpool, UK? Our colleagues from ThinkWell will be organizing an Immunization Economics happy hour networking event - let us know!

ThinkWell’s Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) has launched a refresh of the most comprehensive, current, and standardized global evidence on the cost of vaccine delivery on the Immunization Economics platform. See more here

BactiVac catalyst funding is available to support scientists in bacterial vaccinology to explore new approaches and strategies to advance their vaccines in partnership with LMICs and across the academia/industry divide. Read more here

The WHO is recruiting a Technical Officer (Health Financing for UHC-HCF) in WHO KENYA. Application open until Oct 3, 2018. See more here

UNICEF is supporting the government of Sudan to sustain immunization achievements post-Gavi transition through the generation of evidence on the health and economic impact of Immunization in Sudan. Read more here

Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) describes country research status and important lessons learned in data collection processes and stakeholder engagement. Read more here

TVEE successfully organized workshops focusing on applied vaccine economics, cost-effectiveness, and finance in Karachi, Pakistan and Johannesburg, South Africa for the month of April 2018. Read more here

A new article explores issues of infectious diseases, threats of disruption caused by outbreaks and epidemics, and potential risk management steps including new and improved vaccines. Read more here

Held in South Africa on September 3-12, this course is part of a broader training module of the ALIVE initiative. Application deadline is June 30, read more here.

The WHO is looking to develop a pool of experts that can be more readily called upon to help respond to country needs for technical support on monitoring financial protection, and to also support WHO’s analytical work on monitoring financial protection. Read more here.

TVEE in collaboration with IIHMR will be organizing a two day workshop on Economic Evaluation in Immunization to be held from June 21-22, 2018 in New Delhi, India. Read more here.

Evaluating vaccination programs according to their broad socioeconomic benefits, beyond their health benefits, will help to address the twin problems of vaccine underutilization and weak incentives for vaccine innovation. See more here

ThinkWell’s Immunization Costing Action Network (ICAN) launches the most comprehensive, current, and standardized global evidence on the cost of vaccine delivery on the Immunization Economics platform. Read more here