Community-based demand-generation interventions (IHEA 2025 Pre-Congress Day 1)

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Saturday, July 19, 13:30 – 14:45

DISHA AGARWAL, Gates Foundation

disha.agarwal@gatesfoundation.org

Moderator

Dr. Disha Agarwal is a Program Officer – Vaccine Delivery at the Gates Foundation, focusing on improving immunization coverage and equity in India, with special focus on Zero Dose children.

ALAN NOBLE JOHN, JSI India

alan_john@in.jsi.com

Estimating the cost of HCD-based targeted communication materials and community engagement to reach ZD Children in urban India

Dr. Alan Noble John is a clinician turned public health professional, currently working as a Senior Program Officer at John Snow India. He leads costing and implementation research under the Zero Dose Learning Agenda, focusing on behaviorally informed, human-centered interventions to reach zero-dose children in urban India. His current work estimates the health system and operational investments required to integrate these interventions into routine immunization systems.

DEVAK NAMDHARI, CHAI India

dnamdhari@wjcf.in

Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of HCD-based targeted communication interventions for ZD children in high-burden regions of India

Devak Namdhari is an Associate with the Immunization Program at the India office of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Under the Gates Foundation Led-Zero Dose Learning Agenda, CHAI is testing hyperlocal interventions co-created with communities in high burden regions, leveraging human-centered design principles for addressing root-causes hindering vaccine uptake among ZD children. Devak is contributing to the efforts to understand the cost and cost-effectiveness of developed interventions in reaching ZD children under low-resource settings.

ALEMNESH TEKA, CORE Group Partners Project

alemnesht.cgpp@gmail.com

Effectiveness and cost efficiency of active community-based surveillance augmented by referral slips on reducing zero-dose and under-immunized children in pastoralist/semi-pastoralist communities in Ethiopia

Alemnesh Teka Seboka is a program officer at the Ethiopian CORE Group Partners Project (CGPP) Secretariat at the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA), which is a legally registered non-profit membership organization of NGOs/CSOs. She is the lead person in Borena Zone, and Kelem Wolega (Oromia region). Previously, she coordinated a research project with funding from the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

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