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    Dr Angus Thomson

    IRIMI company, Lyon, France

    Dr Angus Thomson is principal of IRIMI company, an organization concentrated on building public trust in public health programmes, with a focus on immunization. He is also adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Communication Studies & Global Health Communication Center, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, USA. During the height of the pandemic, from April 2020 to May 2022, Dr Thomson was a consultant senior social scientist for the Demand for Immunization team at UNICEF. read more

    Dr Thomson has conceived and helped build a number of global vaccine demand programmes, including the Vaccination Demand Observatory, the International Pediatrics Association Vaccine Trust Project, and an international collaboration that validated the use of context-driven vaccine messaging on online platforms.

    Through collaborations with experts in social, behavioural and communication sciences, Dr Thomson’s team developed a suite of instruments to understand and measure attitudes to adult and healthcare professional vaccination. He co-developed the AIMS (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services) mixed-learning behaviour-centred IPC (infection prevention and control) training programme for healthcare professionals. Having developed the 6As taxonomy of determinants of vaccination uptake, he has run national multi-stakeholder projects in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America that aim to improve vaccination uptake in national immunization programmes.

    Dr Thomson has published over 20 peer-reviewed opinion pieces, research papers and book chapters on vaccine confidence and coverage, and co-edited an 18-paper special issue on vaccine confidence in Vaccine. He co-authored the Vaccine Misinformation Management Field Guide and the Vaccine Messaging Guide, and led the digital information environment workstream of the Vaccination Demand Hub. He lectures on vaccine confidence for the VaxinLive Masters Program in Lyon and the Harvard School for Public Health vaccinology course.

    Dr Angus Thomson has no relevant financial disclosures in relation to this educational activity. 
    Dr Amaya Gillespie

    WHO/UNICEF, Jordan

    Dr Amaya Gillespie is a public health expert who has held senior leadership positions in the United Nations (UN) system, including under the UN Secretary General, World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS). read more

    Dr Gillespie’s grounding in public health and behavioural science has been the common thread throughout her career. She has a reputation as a leader in complex emergencies and public health issues (COVID-19, Ebola, HIV). She led the coordination of the COVID-19 response for the Middle East region in a joint role with the WHO and UNICEF, and most recently, supported Syria in the earthquake response in early 2023.

    Dr Amaya Gillespie has no relevant financial disclosures in relation to this educational activity.
    Dr Henry Kyobe Bosa

    Ministry of Health, Uganda

    Dr Henry Kyobe Bosa, an emerging infectious diseases epidemiologist, is the national incident commander for COVID-19 and Ebola virus in the Ministry of Health of Uganda. read more

    In this role, Dr Kyobe Bosa oversees the overall technical and operational nodes of the Ebola and COVID-19 response by the Ministry of Health in Uganda.

    Prior to this role, Dr Kyobe Bosa supported an African Union agency specializing in the development of sustainable financing mechanisms for outbreaks arising from emerging pathogens.

    Dr Kyobe Bosa has worked in public health emergencies for the past 16 years: from the Ebola outbreak in Bundibugyo in Uganda as a clinician, through to Sierra Leone and Ghana as an epidemiologist during the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak; and Mogadishu, Somalia, working on dengue viral haemorrhagic disease, and several other outbreaks in Uganda.

    Dr Kyobe Bosa is Uganda’s representative to the Africa Ebola Coordination Task Force (AfECT), a joint African Union/WHO AFRO coordinating mechanism. Dr Kyobe Bosa is a senior research scientist at Makerere University Lung Institute, and is a principal investigator on several ongoing studies. He is a co-principal investigator on the TEV Vaccine Trial.

    Dr Henry Kyobe Bosa has no relevant financial disclosures in relation to this educational activity. 
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    • Summarize the current COVID-19 vaccination landscape
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    In this activity, three experts discuss the current landscape of COVID-19 vaccination, possible barriers to vaccine uptake and strategies involving healthcare workers that may help to improve acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. The discussion is guided by pre-canvassed questions provided by respiratory and infectious diseases specialists and primary care providers working in Africa and the Middle East.

    This activity is jointly provided by USF Health and touchIME. read more

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    This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of infectious disease specialists, respiratory disease specialists and primary care providers involved in the management of people with COVID-19 infection or the administration of the COVID-19 vaccines.

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    USF Health adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. All individuals in a position to influence content have disclosed to USF Health any financial relationship with an ineligible organization. USF Health has reviewed and mitigated all relevant financial relationships related to the content of the activity.  The relevant relationships are listed below. All individuals not listed have no relevant financial relationships.

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    Date of original release: 26 April 2023. Date credits expire: 26 April 2024.

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    This activity is jointly provided by USF Health and touchIME.

    The information provided by this CE activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical/clinical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.

    USF is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Equal Access Institution.

    USF Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education to provide continuing education to healthcare professionals. As an accredited provider, USF Health is required to disclose personal information to relevant accredited bodies that certify CE to process credits/contact hours, comply with reporting requirements, and for internal recordkeeping and regulatory purposes. USF Health does not share or sell any individual’s contact information or unique identifiers to any commercial supporter, advertiser, or third party without the specific permission of the individual.

    Unapproved products or unapproved uses of approved products may be discussed by the faculty; these situations may reflect the approval status in one or more jurisdictions. The presenting faculty have been advised by touchIME and USF Health to ensure that they disclose any such references made to unlabelled or unapproved use. No endorsement by touchIME or USF Health of any unapproved products or unapproved uses is either made or implied by mention of these products or uses in touchIME or USF Health activities. touchIME and USF Health accept no responsibility for errors or omissions.

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    Date of original release: 26 April 2023. Date credits expire: 26 April 2024.

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    Question 1/5
    As of March 2023, which of the following statements regarding COVID-19 vaccination is true?

    Globally, there remain major disparities in COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. Africa and the Middle East are among the regions with the lowest number of people vaccinated. Within these regions, there are also large disparities. For example, as of January 2023, 106% of people in Qatar have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with only 26% of people in Iraq.

    Reference

    Our World In Data. Available at: www.ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations (accessed 15 March 2023).

    Question 2/5
    Based on the WHO SAGE roadmap for prioritizing the use of COVID-19 vaccines, which of the following groups would you prioritize for vaccination?

    SAGE, Strategic Advisory Group of Experts; WHO, World Health Organization.

    To assist countries in developing recommendations for optimized use of vaccines against COVID-19, the WHO has developed a roadmap that identifies three priority-use groups (high, medium and low) for vaccination based on epidemiological scenarios, public health goals and vaccine coverage scenarios. Within the roadmap, the high priority group includes older adults, younger adults with significant comorbidities, people with immunocompromising conditions, pregnant persons and frontline health workers.

    Abbreviation

    WHO, World Health Organization.

    Reference

    WHO. SAGE updates COVID-19 vaccination guidance. Available at: www.who.int/news/item/28-03-2023-sage-updates-covid-19-vaccination-guidance (accessed 31 March 2023).

    Question 3/5
    You recommend the COVID-19 vaccine to a 60-year-old woman in your clinic. She has a general lack of trust in vaccines; however, after a lengthy discussion on the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine, she agrees. She is a retired librarian who lives on her own; she has limited mobility and is unable to drive. Based on this information, which factors would you identify as her biggest barriers to vaccine uptake?

    Convenience of access to vaccination is related to increased vaccine uptake.1 In this scenario, the woman may find it difficult to attend her vaccine appointment due to her mobility issues and lack of personal transport.

    Acceptance is the degree to which individuals accept, question or refuse the vaccination.1 Effective strategies to tackle low trust in vaccines include recommendations from health professionals, vaccine champions and advocates, positive social norm messages and community engagement.2

    References

    1. Thomson A, et al. Vaccine. 2016;34:1018–24.
    2. WHO. Weekly Epidemiological Record. No 20. 2022;97:209–24.
    Question 4/5
    You work at a clinic in a rural town, 2 hours away from a major city. The majority of the community congregate at the local place of worship each Sunday. You are hearing that many people are hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and despite offering flexible opening hours at your clinic, you are still seeing a low vaccine uptake. How would you best approach increasing vaccine uptake in this population?

    Trustworthy figures (e.g. religious leaders) can play a major role in saving lives and reducing illness related to COVID-19 in a community. They are a primary source of support, comfort, guidance, and direct health care and social service, for the communities they serve. Religious leaders of faith-based organizations and communities of faith can share health information to protect their own members and wider communities, which may be more likely to be accepted than from other sources.

    Reference

    WHO. Practical considerations and recommendations for religious leaders and faith-based communities in the context of COVID-19. Available at: www.who.int/publications/i/item/practical-considerations-and-recommendations-for-religious-leaders-and-faith-based-communities-in-the-context-of-covid-19 (accessed 15 March 2023).

    Question 5/5
    Your region has high vaccination rates and is now considering how to integrate COVID-19 vaccination into a routine immunization programme. What would you suggest to optimize vaccination rates?

    The WHO and UNICEF published a joint report detailing the considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary healthcare for 2022 and beyond. Providing COVID-19 vaccination alongside other health interventions as a package of services, especially in the face of competing health priorities, will increase efficiency and programme performance.

    Abbreviations

    UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund; WHO, World Health Organization

    Reference

    WHO and UNICEF. Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyond Available at: www.linkedimmunisation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Integration-of-Covid19-Vax_RI_PHC_WHO-UNICEF_Version-1_20220727.pdf (accessed 15 March 2023).

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    The information provided by this CE activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical/clinical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.

    USF is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Equal Access Institution.

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