Vaccines and future global health needs

Vaccines and future global health needs.

Increased international support for both research into new vaccines and their deployment in developing countries has been evident over the past decade. In particular, the GAVI Alliance has had a major impact in increasing uptake of the six common infant vaccines as well as those against hepatitis B and yellow fever. It further aims to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in the near fu...

Vaccines – current status and future needs

Prophylactic immunisation against infectious disease has been the most successful medical intervention yet in reducing mortality. From the introduction of vaccination against smallpox at the end of the eighteenth century, there has been continuous progress in producing safe and effective vaccines against a number of common diseases. These vaccines were bacterial toxoids (diphtheria and tetanus)...

Vaccines and global health.

Vaccines have made a major contribution to global health in recent decades but they could do much more. In November 2011, a Royal Society discussion meeting, 'New vaccines for global health', was held in London to discuss the past contribution of vaccines to global health and to consider what more could be expected in the future. Papers presented at the meeting reviewed recent successes in the ...

Assessing future health workforce needs

Global health metrics needs collaboration and competition.

92 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 10, 2015 Enhancement of community trust, engagement, and ownership will be key to building resilient systems for health. This includes strengthening community health worker capacity and, more generally, partnering with communities in meaningful ways. More health workers are needed, and training must prepare them for the right competencies—ie, those that enab...