Int'l Monitoring Board appreciates Pakistan's progress in controlling polio radio.gov.pk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radio.gov.pk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Members of the TIMB include:
Sir Liam Donaldson (Former Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;
Professor Sheila Leatherman, CBE, Hon RCP, Professor of Global Health Policy, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina;
Dr Boluwatife Oluwafunmilola Lola-Dare, President, Centre for Health Sciences Training, Research and Development, CHESTRAD Global; and
Dr Senjuti Saha, Scientist, Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF). The COVID-19 work of the Polio Programme has opened up insights and opportunities as to how some of the goals of polio transition (e.g. integrated service delivery) can be achieved more rapidly or in new ways.
"Some communities have become so hostile to the Polio Programme, and so opposed to letting their children have the vaccine, that negative attitudes may have reached the point of no return..[T]he GPEI - from global to regional to national to local level - needs to adapt and do things differently."