Vaccine demand can be generated through the development of targeted action plans addressing both access issues and hesitancy. With only a third of the eligible population fully vaccinated, we don’t have the luxury of time
As a lesson from this pandemic, efforts need to be undertaken by the government to strengthen its primary role in the data pipeline— proper and timely distribution of data.
Extensive efforts to provide the foundational policies and environment for open data to thrive need to be supported by substantial reform to effectively leverage open data for time-sensitive functions like disaster relief.
PMAY is an excellent first step to put mechanisms in place for directly reaching the beneficiaries but it has to evolve so it stays relevant and can be scaled up going ahead.
In this paper, the authors estimate age-and gender-specific mortality risk among all SARS-CoV-2 infections in four settings in India, and compare age trends in mortality with similar estimates in high-income countries
This vaccine acceptance campaign strategic document outlines our initial research findings, how our findings translated into a communication strategy with a strong identity, messaging matrix, segmentation and a final design look and feel