{"id":5098,"date":"2023-06-21T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2023-06-22T06:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:33:22","slug":"varn2023-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"VARN2023 Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MEC Health Laboratory (HL) news: Ph.D. Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, Head of the HL, participated in the Sabin Vaccine Institute and UNICEF, in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Present the Vaccination Acceptance Research Network (VARN) 2023 Conference\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefan-Bankok.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefan-Bankok.png 1250w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefan-Bankok-620x496.png 620w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefan-Bankok-500x400.png 500w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefan-Bankok-768x614.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This meeting will be an in-person event. Conference sessions will provide a space for exploration and facilitate the wide dissemination of a growing body of knowledge, practice, and evidence-informed strategies for driving action across the vaccination acceptance, demand and delivery ecosystem. A \u2018post-live\u2019 publishing of recorded sessions will be made available to all registrants on the conferencing website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-1280x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-1280x591.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-620x286.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-500x231.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5-1536x710.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stefa-Bangkok-2023-5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>UNICEF believes that taking people-centered<\/em> approaches in the design of the delivery and utilization of health programs is fundamental to ensure that immunization and other health services are tailored to the needs of the most vulnerable, particularly in zero-dose<em> and under-vaccinated communities. To achieve this, UNICEF supports countries to develop evidence-based, locally-informed, context-specific strategies\u00a0with active community participation\u00a0to improve vaccine uptake<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Sabin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccineacceptance.org\/home-page\/varn2022-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaugural VARN conference<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/demandhub.org\/covid-19-vaccine-demand-global-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19 global demand event<\/a>, co-hosted by UNICEF and partners, brought together over 1500 global experts as registered attendees across 126 countries. Participants represented diverse disciplines including global health and policy, research and academia, and healthcare and health communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VARN2023 will provide an opportunity for the sharing of knowledge from research and practice, as well as agenda setting around three core themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vaccine equity: setting a new course for reaching marginalized and zero-dose communities, conflict settings, and reducing gender barriers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reimagining essential childhood immunization: a reversal of Current Trends and improved integration into comprehensive health service delivery programs (from Policy to community-level responses)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Life-course immunization: extending the opportunities of COVID-19 vaccination investments to integrate, expand and strengthen LCI (HPV vaccination, future pandemic preparedness, and healthy aging).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEC Health Laboratory (HL) news: Ph.D. Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, Head of the HL, participated in the Sabin Vaccine Institute and UNICEF, in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Present the Vaccination Acceptance Research Network (VARN) 2023 Conference\u2026 This meeting will be an in-person event. 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