Find out our community survey results and save the date for upcoming learning session

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Thank you for participating in the survey

We recently asked you about your thoughts on the Immunization Economics Community of Practice and interest in future learning activities. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate, and are excited to share the findings from the survey below.

Is the Community of Practice relevant to your work?

Members resoundingly agree that the Immunization Economics Community of Practice is relevant to their work and fills an important gap.

How do you use the Community of Practice?

Members use immunization economics evidence primarily to inform immunization policy and practices, budget and other analyses and projects, training materials, and advocacy materials.

Join us for a learning session on 13 November 2024

Join us for a webinar on the Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC), the most up to date and comprehensive database on immunization delivery costs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). During this webinar we will go over the methodology behind the IDCC, discuss the status of the evidence on immunization delivery costs in LMICs, and show how the Catalogue can be used for further research and policymaking.

Register for free via the link below.

What do you want to learn more about?

We asked our members what key topics in immunization economics they would like to learn more about. Three topics stood out as being of greatest interest.

The cost of reaching zero-dose children

The evidence base on, and methods to estimate the cost of reaching zero-dose children were covered during Gavi’s recent Zero-Dose Learning Week (see the presentations here), methodological guidance can be found here, and all other relevant resources, including a list of ongoing research projects on this topic can be found on our zero-dose cost page. As these progress, we will be in touch to disseminate the findings to the Immunization Economics community.

Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue

We will be organizing a webinar soon which will cover the status of evidence on immunization delivery cost in low- and middle-income countries, and the use of this cost evidence. In the meantime, you can find the IDCC here.

The economics of adult vaccination

Stay tuned for a learning session on this topic in the near future!

About the survey

Between July and August 2024, 52 members responded, representing 1.5% of community members. The largest groups of respondents worked either in the governmental sector (27%), including policymakers, immunization managers, health professionals, and service providers, or academic or scientific organizations (25%).