Abstract The Global Vaccine Action Plan 2011–2020 (GVAP) aims to extend the full benefit
of vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases to all individuals. More than halfway …

Immunization has been shown to be the most effective disease prevention measure of all
time, apart from water purification. However, vaccination programs remain highly vulnerable …

Background Vaccine-preventable diseases cause important health, societal, and economic
burdens worldwide. Although modern vaccines are highly efficacious, incomplete coverage …

While African countries have improved access to immunization since the start of the
millennium, progress has stagnated in the last few years. One in five African children is not …

Achieving and maintaining high vaccination coverage requires investments, but the costs
and effectiveness of interventions to increase coverage remain poorly characterized. We …

Evidence-based reviews of published literature can be subject to several biases. Grey
literature, however, can be of poor quality and expensive to access. Effective search …

Over the 5-year period ending in 2018, 16 countries with a combined birth cohort of over 6
million infants requiring life-saving immunizations are scheduled to transition (graduate) …

Ref. No. 04-014191 how innovative work can inform contemporary decisions. We highlight
below questions for a global research agenda to allow policy-makers to incorporate …

There has been increasing investment made in health system strengthening by global
funders for public health interventions, such as Gavi, on the basis that stronger underlying …