Voices of Public Health: A JSI Podcast

In this podcast, you will hear from Kate Bagshaw, Technical Officer with JSI’s Immunization Center and Hannah Hausi, a Senior Immunization Technical Advisor, and Patrick Nicks, an Immunization Technical Officer—who are based in Malawi. With more than 30 years of experience working on public health and immunization combined, they share their experiences supporting the country to identify and reach 9-year old girls with the HPV vaccine, the process of changing the country’s vaccine delivery strategy over time, and how the country plans to strengthen and maintain the HPV vaccination program moving forward.

In this podcast, you will hear from Kate Bagshaw, Technical Officer with JSI’s Immunization Center and Hannah Hausi, a Senior Immunization Technical Advisor, and Patrick Nicks, an Immunization Technical Officer—who are based in Malawi. With more than 30 years of experience working on public health and immunization combined, they share their experiences supporting the country to identify and reach 9-year old girls with the HPV vaccine, the process of changing the country’s vaccine delivery strategy over time, and how the country plans to strengthen and maintain the HPV vaccination program moving forward.

In this podcast, you will hear from Kate Bagshaw, Technical Officer with JSI’s Immunization Center and Dominique Kondji Kondji, the Executive Director of Building Capacities for Better Health in Africa (BCH Africa) and Achidi Asanga Zaccs, a Communication Technical Assistant with BCH Africa, who are based in Cameroon. With a collective 30 years of experience working on immunization and community health, they share their passion and understanding of the challenges and successes linked to introducing the HPV vaccine in Cameroon during the COVID-19 pandemic. They share how the HPV vaccine introduction has both built on previous experiences and posed unique challenges and how the country is planning to maintain HPV vaccination, including through strengthened community engagement, during the COVID-19 pandemic response.

In this podcast, we are joined by members of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) at both the federal and provincial level in Sindh province of Pakistan to discuss successes and strategies in improving urban immunization in Karachi, Pakistan. We cover the creation of an Immunization Roadmap, private sector engagement, and the impact of COVID-19 on immunization in Karachi. This work is funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.