Live Q&A session: Building trust in vaccines and the services that deliver them
Event
Following European Immunization Week 2012, the European Centre for Disease Prevention, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and Control and the UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS invite you to participate in a Live Q&A session on the EIW campaign site.
The Live Q&A took place on Thursday, 10 May 2012 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m CEST.
Topics for discussion
- Trust, confidence & immunization: Eroding trust in vaccines is a major issue facing immunization programmes today. How can we use innovative and new methods to build confidence What is the role and what are the needs of front-line health workers in building and sustaining trust How can national and international systems truly support them
- Successes, challenges and lessons learned from EIW/WIW 2012: How can experiences from this and previous years’ initiatives help us improve the event in the coming years
Who answered the questions:
- Prof. Pier Luigi Lopalco, head of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Programme (ECDC)
- Andrea Wurz, Health Communication Specialist (ECDC)
- Dr. Dina Pfeifer, Programme Manager, a.i., Vaccine-preventable Diseases & Immunization (WHO/Europe)
- Robb Butler, Behaviour Change & Advocacy Officer (WHO/Europe)
- Oya Zeren Afsar, Immunization Specialist (UNICEF-CEE/CIS)
- Sharad Agarwal, Health Communication Specialist (UNICEF-CEE/CIS)
