
Vaccine Equity – Digital events

accination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 4
23 October 2023This 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
13 September 2023Part 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
31 August 2023
Vaccination: Benefits beyond specific disease prevention - Part 1
21 August 2023This 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
16 August 2023
Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Launch of a new FIP policy toolkit
26 July 2023
Vaccines & special-risk groups: Pharmacy teams and all healthcare workers
9 May 2023Among 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
22 February 2023
Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Access to data and vaccination records
3 February 2023
Enabling life-course immunisation through pharmacy-based vaccination: Regulations and prescribing
18 January 2023This 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
7 December 2022The 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
6 December 2022This 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
14 November 2022Among 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
30 September 2022Among different special-risk population groups, older adults have specific vaccination needs that will be discussed in this event.

Vaccines & special-risk groups: Cardiovascular diseases
21 July 2022Among 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
29 June 2022
Sustainable and equitable access to vaccines: Establishing priorities and setting policies in the African region
4 November 2021This 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
28 October 2021This 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
26 October 2021This 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
14 October 2021This 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
7 October 2021This 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
30 September 2021This 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
23 September 2021This 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.

Health illiteracy and vaccine misinformation as determinants for equity: developing policies to establish access to quality information in an equitable way
26 August 2021This event will have a focus on the issues around health literacy and access to information.

Equity, access & sustainability through life’s ages and stages: Enabling a life course-approach to vaccination
8 July 2021The 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
17 June 2021The 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
17 November 2020FIP 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.