Reaching Every Child: The Details

What we do:

• Design and conduct research that provides evidence on strategies to improve routine immunization services.
• Provide evidence regarding the role of immunizations within broader health systems.
• Strengthen routine immunization programs through evidence-based recommendations and capacity-building initiatives.

Specifically:

• Help design and evaluate strategies to strengthen disease surveillance systems, improve vaccination coverage, improve data quality, and ultimately reduce the occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs).
• Strengthen capacity at the district, state, regional, and country levels to plan, implement, and evaluate immunization programs.
• Help evaluate projects that integrate non-vaccine interventions (such as insecticide-treated bed nets, improving water safety, and hygiene practices) with routine immunization programs.
• Synergize routine immunization systems with disease elimination and eradication activities, such as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the Measles & Rubella Initiative.
• Develop and evaluate strategies to reach unvaccinated and under-vaccinated populations.
  

Resources:

• General immunization information
  • WHO Immunization website
  • WHO Immunization Service Delivery website
• Guidelines & Documents
  • WHO Global Vaccine Action Plan
  • WHO Vaccine Position Papers
  • WHO Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy
• Data
  • WHO UNICEF review of national immunization coverage, 1980-2012 (Country Coverage Profiles)
  • WHO Immunization Data
  • WHO Immunization Indicators Database
• Other
  • PATH Vaccine Resource Library