Vaccine Equity – Digital events

accination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 4

This is the 4th and final episode in the FIP series ‘Vaccination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention’ which aimed to highlight the extensive advantages of vaccination beyond merely guarding against specific pathogens in older adults.

Vaccination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 3 

Part 3 will focus on the burden of diseases and the risks and costs of not widening access to vaccination.

Vaccination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 2

This webinar – Part 2 - will share contributions

, activities, and tools that pharmacists lead and utilise to promote healthy ageing in the practice setting

Vaccination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 1

This webinar – Part 1 - will delve into technical and evidence-based insights on positive downstream effects of vaccines in older adults including that on cardiovascular events and diseases, diabetes or arthritis.

Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Launch of a new FIP Pandemic Preparedness report

This event sought to derive key lessons, recommend

ations and considerations for the future in another report, “Pandemic Preparedness, Response and Recovery: Lessons Learnt for Global Pharmacy”

Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Launch of a new FIP policy toolkit

This event is delivered as part of a new FIP programme supported by Pfizer, aims to provide our members with approaches and tools for tackling key policy enablers that determine equity, access and sustainability of pharmacy-based life-course immunisation.
 

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Pharmacy teams and all healthcare workers

Among the different special-risk groups for vaccine-preventable diseases, healthcare professionals are in contact with multiple patients daily and are therefore at increased risk of contracting and further spreading vaccine-preventable diseases.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Pregnant individuals

Among the different special-risk population groups for vaccine-preventable diseases, people that are pregnant have particular vaccination needs that will be highlighted at this event.

Pharmacists can play a role in raising awareness of the importance of vaccination among this population group.

Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Access to data and vaccination records

This event is delivered as part of a new FIP programme supported by Pfizer, FIP data shows that pharmacists’ access to patient vaccination records varies widely across countries and regions.

Understanding the different models and country experiences is key to wider implementation.

Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Regulations and prescribing

This event is delivered as part of a new FIP programme supported by Pfizer, which aims to provide FIP members with approaches and tools for tackling key policy enablers that determine equity, access and sustainability of pharmacy-based life-course immunisation.

It will feature a number of pharmacy leadership bodies describing how pharmacy-based vaccination, including prescribing, is regulated in their countries.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: roundtable summit

The final event in the FIP series focuses on the vaccination needs of special-risk population groups through an intersectoral roundtable.

In addition, launching a summary publication and a series of short videos to support pharmacists’ role in raising awareness and building confidence in vaccines and in promoting convenient access to vaccinations.

Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Service remuneration models

This event is delivered as part of a new FIP programme supported by Pfizer, which aims to provide our members with approaches and tools for tackling key policy enablers that determine equity, access and sustainability of pharmacy-based life-course immunisation.

It will feature a number of pharmacy leadership bodies sharing their remuneration models and journeys for the benefit of policy-enablement everywhere.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Diabetes

Among the different special-risk groups for vaccine-preventable diseases, people living with diabetes have particular vaccination needs that will be highlighted in this event.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Older adults

Among different special-risk population groups, older adults have specific vaccination needs that will be discussed in this event.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Cardiovascular diseases

Among the different special-risk population groups, people living with cardiovascular diseases have particular vaccination needs that will be highlighted in this event.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Chronic Respiratory Conditions

Among the different special-risk population groups

, people living with chronic respiratory conditions have specific vaccination needs that will be discussed in this event

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the African region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the African region.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the Western Pacific region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the Western Pacific region.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the South East Asian region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the South East Asian region.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the European region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the European region.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the Eastern Mediterranean region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the Americas region

This event focuses on the regional needs and drivers for transforming vaccination in the Americas.

This involves identifying priorities in the region’s countries with regards to equity and access to vaccinations. Barriers and challenges and regional needs in relation to policy setting will also be discussed.

Working together across systems to transform vaccination policy: working with others in our professions, with other disciplines and agencies to establish sustainable policies

This event will focus on intra and interprofessional alliances to ensure that we can work together to deliver the areas of policy addressed in this series.

Panelists will also discuss working together with other agencies and policymakers to establish sustainable policies on vaccines access and equity, including how pharmacy can be a force of good in supporting vaccinations for all health workers.

Equity, access & sustainability through life’s ages and stages: Enabling a life course-approach to vaccination

The panelists in this event will focus on age and explore vaccines equity and access through life’s ages and stages – from childhood (including pregnancy) to later adulthood – from a pharmacy perspective.

They will focus on setting out the policy issues and immediate next steps, determining what pharmacy needs to do to singularly affect the most change in this area.

Introducing the FIP ‘Transforming Vaccination Globally, Regional and Nationally’ 2021: Accelerating equity, access and sustainability through policy development and implementation

The first episode of the programme will set the stage for the entire programme.

This event will revisit the key outcomes of the Transforming Vaccination 2020 programme, specifically focusing on the outcomes relating to shaping policy around equity, access and sustainability and how they are shaping the FIP vaccination agenda for 2021. It will also describe the programme, and outline its key aims and objectives as well as outcomes.

The role of pharmacist vaccinators in improving access to and equality in healthcare outcomes: FIP DG 10 Equity & equality and FIP DG 18 Access to Medicines & Services

FIP is excited to announce a new initiative entitled “Transforming Vaccination Globally and Regionally.

” This initiative involves a three-part series of 8 online events each, and is the first FIP transformational outcome-based online programme of its kind, culminating in the signing of a historical commitment by FIP and member organisations to transform vaccinations globally and regionally.

In this episode – “Pharmacist Vaccinators as a way to improve access to medicines” – is an interview format that focuses on the FIP Development Goal 18: Access to Medicines and Services from the perspective of vaccination by the pharmacist as well as FIP Development Goal 10 Equality and Equity. The role of pharmacists in ensuring that vaccinations are widely and easily accessible by all people in all areas of the world, and the expertise of pharmacists in delivering the logistics and services needed to increase vaccination rates.