The Geneva Learning Foundation

Lightning Chat about Human Resources for Health with Catherine Kane (World Health Organization)

Lightning chats are rapid-fire Q&A sessions with a Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Their goal is to:

- help national and sub-national immunization professionals to understand what is new and different and what this means for their work; and

- provide them with basic information and relevant resources.

Here are the questions we asked to kick off the Lightning Chat:

1. What is the vision for human resources for health and why is it relevant now? What are current HRH challenges that affect immunization service delivery and performances?

2. What are the principles that govern the global strategy on human resources for health? What does this global strategy seek to attain?

3. Within the IA2030 context, why is it essential to ensure the availability of a quality health workforce? What impact will this have on immunization performances?

4. What are the key considerations in Human resources for health planning?

5. What measures can be taken to fill in the gaps in terms of availability, accessibility, acceptability, and service delivery of healthcare workers?

6. What practical advice can you give national EPI teams as they develop their National Immunization Strategies on how to optimize performance, quality, and impact of the health workforce as far as immunization service delivery is concerned?

7. If all of the current HRH-related challenges were resolved, what will success look like for you in the year 2030?

Learn more about Immunization Agenda 2030:

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Topic: Putting communities at the center: local solutions for large impact

Guest: Francine Ganter-Restrepo, Technical Officer, Demand and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, WHO

Key messages: We will be discussing the latest approaches and tools for working with communities to design people centred immunization services.

Resources: https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/essential-programme-on-immunization/demand

Join Charlotte Mbuh from The Geneva Learning Foundation to learn about the world's new vision and strategy for the future of immunization.

Immunization is one of the best health investments money can buy.

Yet despite tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

In some countries, progress has stalled or even reversed, and there is a real risk that complacency will undermine past achievements.

To address these challenges over the next decade, a new global vision and strategy titled ‘Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030)’ has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Experience sharing and problem-solving session #5 (22 March 2022)

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

Since Monday 7 March 2022, we are working together in the first IA2030 Full Learning Cycle facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

Each Movement Member has identified a specific challenge.

In Experience Sharing session, a Member presents their challenge and the issues they face.

The entire group is asked to share their experience to help solve the problems.

This will be done through the use of the Ideas Engine, a local innovation sourcing platform for sharing practices and ideas.

Starting on 21 March, Members have kicked off a four-week peer learning exercise to develop situation analysis of their local challenge.

This session is facilitated by Charlotte Mbuh and Dr. François Gasse.

Learn more and join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

Each Monday, we meet to share experience in the Full Learning Cycle for IA2030 offered by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

In 2020, global immunization coverage levels for infants dropped back to 2009 levels. We lost 11 years of hard work.

This is why we are calling you to join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Share experience with over 40,000 fellow immunization professionals from 110 countries

The Geneva Learning Foundation and its partners invite you to join the global movement to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030. The first exercise kicks off on 7 March 2022.

Apply now to join the Movement for IA2030…

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) is a global initiative owned by everyone, with a common purpose: to achieve the goals of IA2030. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s immunization platform seeks to contribute to the emergence of this Movement.

Experience sharing and problem-solving session #4 (17 March 2022)

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

As of Monday, they are working together in the first IA2030 Full Learning Cycle facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

Each Movement Member has identified a specific challenge.

In this session, a Member presents their challenge and the issues they face.

The entire group is asked to share their experience to help solve the problems.

This will be done through the use of the Ideas Engine, a local innovation sourcing platform for sharing practices and ideas.

This session is facilitated by Charlotte Mbuh and Dr. François Gasse.

Learn more and join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Topic: How to build a positive experience of vaccination? Considerations for service delivery

Guest: Lisa Menning (WHO)

Join Charlotte Mbuh from The Geneva Learning Foundation to learn about the world's new vision and strategy for the future of immunization.

Immunization is one of the best health investments money can buy.

Yet despite tremendous progress, far too many people around the world – including nearly 20 million infants each year – have insufficient access to vaccines.

In some countries, progress has stalled or even reversed, and there is a real risk that complacency will undermine past achievements.

To address these challenges over the next decade, a new global vision and strategy titled ‘Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind (IA2030)’ has been endorsed by the World Health Assembly.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Experience sharing and problem-solving session #3 (15 March 2022)

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

As of Monday, they are working together in the first IA2030 Full Learning Cycle facilitated by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

Each Movement Member has identified a specific challenge.

In this session, a Member presents their challenge and the issues they face.

The entire group is asked to share their experience to help solve the problems.

This will be done through the use of the Ideas Engine, a local innovation sourcing platform for sharing practices and ideas.

This session is facilitated by Charlotte Mbuh and Dr. François Gasse.

The First Impact Accelerator for radiation risk communication to improve benefit-risk dialogue in paediatric imaging kicks off on Monday 7 March 2022.

We are pleased to inform you that 26 alumni have been selected to participate in the first Impact Accelerator Launchpad for radiation communication from March 7-April 1, 2022.

The Accelerator is not a course. The focus is on the actions you will take in your work, not on formal learning. It will require active participation from March 7-April 1, 2022.

Learn more: https://www.learning.foundation/who-pediatric-radiation-communication

*** Special session to honor Eriko Maeda ***

We are deeply shocked and sad to learn that Eriko Maeda, a Radiologist from University of Tokyo, Japan, and one of our peers from the WHO Scholar Level 1 course on radiation risk communication to improve benefit-risk dialogue in paediatric imaging course in May 2021, passed away recently.

To honor Eriko, we invite you to join us for a 15-minute special session ahead of our first Assembly for the Impact Accelerator for radiation risk communication on Tuesday 8 March.

Eriko was a champion for improving radiation risk-benefit communication where she worked.

She was one of the 64 Scholars who successfully completed the WHO Scholar Level 1 course on radiation risk-benefit communication in May 2021.

She was committed and was actively taking actions to improve radiation risk-benefit communication in her community. She even applied to join the Impact Accelerator Launchpad in 2022.

If you have interacted in any way with Eriko, we hope that this will offer you an opportunity to share your thoughts and express your condolences to Eriko's close colleagues and family members.

More than 6,000 immunization and primary health care professionals from 110 countries have already joined the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030).

On Monday, March 14, 2022, they will meet for the second time to share experience in the first Full Learning Cycle for IA2030, proposed by the Geneva Learning Foundation.

In 2020, global immunization coverage levels for infants dropped back to 2009 levels. We lost 11 years of hard work.

This is why we are calling you to join the Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030.

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

Share experience with over 40,000 fellow immunization professionals from 110 countries

The Geneva Learning Foundation and its partners invite you to join the global movement to achieve the goals of Immunization Agenda 2030. The first exercise kicks off on 7 March 2022.

Apply now to join the Movement for IA2030…

https://www.learning.foundation/immunization-agenda-2030

The Movement for Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) is a global initiative owned by everyone, with a common purpose: to achieve the goals of IA2030. The Geneva Learning Foundation’s immunization platform seeks to contribute to the emergence of this Movement.