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Leveraging the Polio Legacy for Global Health Security

Jul 2019 | ,

CGPP-GHSA presented at the “Geographic Perspectives on Infectious Diseases in Humans, Animals, and the Environment” Symposium at Harvard University on June 18th, 2019.
CGPP and GHSA share a goal: effective community based surveillance, and rapid outbreak response. CGPP recognizes that the most valuable resources in detecting an outbreak are the people closest to it. Arming community health workers and mobilizers, along with other local leaders with the information they need to make decisions about when and how to detect, report, and respond is a critical measure in controlling outbreaks before they have a chance to spread. Given the eradication of polio is imminent, CGPP is now taking on a broader mandate and retraining its workforce to include disease threats beyond polio: to include those that are critical to local, national, and global health security.

Reaching Every Child Across All Settings – Learning from Practice and Implementation from the CORE Group Polio Project

Jun 2018 | , ,

At this year’s CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference on June 5 in Bethesda, Maryland, the CORE Group Polio Project Secretariat Directors from South Sudan and Nigeria spoke of their work in protracted conflict situations to reach vulnerable children with polio immunization. To support the global push to eradicate polio and to improve child health, the directors addressed the need to integrate immunization services with nutrition, safe water, good hygiene practices, and other health promotion activities that go beyond simply providing two drops of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV.) CGPP Deputy Director Lee Losey, who served as the first CGPP Secretariat Director in Angola, moderated the concurrent session.