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The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Immunization Essentials. This course provides essential technical and managerial information that immunization program personnel need to know in order to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate immunization programs effectively on a large scale.

Image Source: Adapted by T Tirabassi/CCP from clipart. A needle and syringe and a vaccine vial with bacteria in the background

This course covers topics such as:

The basic concepts of immunity and vaccination
Essential information on vaccine-preventable diseases
Basic information on the global effort to immunize all children
Basic information about the delivery of immunization services

as well as:

Obstacles to scaling up immunization services and ways to overcome these obstacles
Key indicators for monitoring and evaluating immunization programs
Appropriate conditions for the storage and transport of vaccines
Ways to monitor the storage and transport of vaccines
Safe injection policies
Interventions to improve the safety of injection practices
Essential information on quality assurance of immunization programs

Disclaimer: The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government or The Johns Hopkins University.