News from IVAC - August 2020

August 2020

Webinar Recording: Avoiding Barriers to Access for a COVID-19 Vaccine

The International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) hosted a webinar on September 16th, “Avoiding Barriers to Access for a COVID-19 Vaccine.” Description: Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, countries worked to overcome a myriad of challenges when introducing new safe and effective vaccines. While policy makers and health advocates addressed barriers, from understanding disease burden and cost […]

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August 2020

Visualizing Vaccines

By Graphicacy Originally published on Medium OVERVIEW In 2016, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health introduced its revolutionary online platform, VIEW-hub, as a one-stop resource for global vaccine data. This interactive, map-based platform allowed researchers, policymakers, public health officials, and program funders to call up data […]

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August 2020

DoVE Return on Investment (ROI) Publication Launch

The Decade of Vaccine Economics (DoVE) Project, carried out by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) for nearly ten years, has computed the return-on-investment for vaccines preventing 10 infectious diseases in 73 countries that have received support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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