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Articles on routine vaccination

October 26, 2022

COVID and health workers’ strike: how Kenya’s health services coped in times of crisis

Mutono Nyamai, University of Nairobi; Loice Achieng Ombajo, University of Nairobi; Marleen Temmerman, Aga Khan University , and Thumbi Mwangi, Washington State University

Outpatient visits, screening and diagnostic services, and child immunisation were particularly negatively affected.

March 23, 2022

Samantha Vanderslott, University of Oxford

More can be done to prioritise protection against highly transmittable and serious diseases, such as polio and measles.

August 25, 2021

Wayne Howard, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Melinda Suchard, National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Outbreaks of polio have become a thing of the past, told to us by our grandparents, only because of vaccination.

Samantha Vanderslott
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Thumbi Mwangi
Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
Marleen Temmerman
Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (OB/GYN), Aga Khan University
Melinda Suchard
Head, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Wayne Howard
Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Mutono Nyamai
Post-doctoral research scientist, Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi
Loice Achieng Ombajo
Infectious Disease Specialist, Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine, Co-director of the Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi
Helen Kiarie
Head of the Division of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at the Ministry of Health in Kenya