Programme – Sustainable implementation of vaccination programmes for women: best practice strategies
See below the programme for the FIGO workshop 'Sustainable implementation of vaccination programmes for women: Best practice strategies'.
Monday 4 July 2022 (day 1)
Afternoon programme
Welcome: Introduction to the workshop
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Welcome and introduction to the workshop: overview of content, structure and expected outcomes
Joanna Cain, Mary Ann Lumsden, Jeanne Conry
Introduction to vaccination programmes
Session chair: Jeanne Conry
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Getting on the path to eliminate cervical cancer
Princess Nothemba Simelela (virtual) - Overview of the role, timing, and importance of vaccination throughout the woman’s life cycle (including COVID-19 as exemplar)
Jeanne Conry - Key characteristics of health systems strengthening that can sustain vaccination programmes for women
Pius Okong - Specific issues and gaps for research regarding vaccines in pregnancy and fetal considerations
Eliana Amaral
Break
Scientific background/immunology of vaccines in women's health
Session chair: Partha Basu
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Key areas of immunology and scientific context relevant to development and delivery of vaccines for women, including a focus on pregnancy, adolescents, and young women
Margaret Stanley (virtual) - Review the immunology and scientific background of the HPV vaccine, including research and development
Joakim Dillner (virtual) - Panel and discussion
Margaret Stanley, Joakim Dillner, Omu Anzala, Eliana Amaral
Role of HPV vaccination in WHO guidance on elimination of cervical cancer, LMIC focus
Session chair: Hani Fawzi
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- The role of HPV vaccination in WHO Global Strategy for Elimination of Cervical Cancer (specific issues, barriers, and emerging trends in broad guidance implementation, with a focus on LMIC settings)
Neerja Bhatla - Wider perspective: Vaccination and interplay with the entire WHO 2020 Strategy (including HPV screening, specific case studies, barriers, settings, and implementation strategies from across the globe)
Linda Eckert
Close day 1
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Tuesday 5 July 2022 (day 2)
Morning programme
HPV vaccination: specific successes and challenges
Session chair: Neerja Bhatla
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Successes and challenges of implementation strategies from across the globe, specific to HPV vaccination and allied strategies
Patti Gravitt (virtual) - Implementation case study (HPV vaccination as part of a strategy): South America (including challenges, successes, and ongoing barriers)
Rene Pareja - Implementation case study (recovery, role of government and professional societies,, moving forwards): Japan
Ryo Konno (virtual)
Vaccination in pregnancy: specific successes and challenges
Session chair: Eliana Amaral
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Overview of immunisation during pregnancy including fetal issues (safety and importance) including new developments in research
Bo Jacobsson (virtual) - Role of international and non-governmental organisations in effecting change, using the case study of scaling-up methods in South America and the role of PAHO
Alba Mario Ropero (virtual) - Implementation case study (immunisation during pregnancy): successes in South America
Bremen de Mucio
Implementation successes and challenges: what needs to be included in best practice recommendations?
Session chair: Mary Ann Lumsden
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Considerations based on global lessons learned on HPV and other vaccines for women
Paul Bloem (virtual) - Orientation for breakout discussion groups
Joanna Cain
Break
Breakout discussion groups – vaccination programme implementation: What works and what doesn't work?
Language: English only. No livestream available online (in-person only).
The objective is to develop key best practice statements and remaining questions or issues. Each group of in-person participants will discuss a key issue relating to vaccination programme implementation, specific to their chosen focus topic (HPV vaccination or vaccination during pregnancy). In this first breakout session, groups will be led by the facilitators to create a prioritised list of areas of focus for in depth discussion. The goal is to create a set of best practice recommendations for the implementation of existing guidance relating to the assigned issue and vaccination topic which will be presented to the workshop on day 3.
Dealing with anti-vaccination misinformation in women’s health
Session chair: Sharon Hanley
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Overview of the key issues and barriers to dealing with antivaccination misinformation and promotion of scientific based education
Veronica Maria Pimentel - Understanding healthcare practitioners’ motors and barriers for recommending whooping cough vaccination among pregnant women
Gaelle Vallee-Tourangeau - Specific case study: Role of antivaccination misinformation in the case of HPV vaccination implementation in Japan (successes and challenges)
Sharon Hanley - Panel and discussion
Gaelle Vallee-Tourangeau, Sharon Hanley, Rob Hucker, Elif Goknur Topcu
Women's rights: ethics relating to access to and knowledge of vaccine availability and use
Session chair: Jeanne Conry
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Ethical issues relating to vaccination
Lourdes Capito - Framework of women's rights and ethical obligations of health systems and physicians to women specifically, relating to access to and knowledge of vaccines
Aris Antsaklis - Panel and discussion
Lourdes Capito, Eliana Amaral, Aris Antsaklis, Jeanne Conry
Break
Afternoon programme
Vaccination programme implementation in LMICs
Session chair: Linda Eckert
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Issues with implementation of vaccine delivery to reach women to ensure vaccine access across settings: lessons from the Australian experience
Suzanne Garland - Issues in the implementation of immunisation programmes and recommended guidance for children and adolescents, specific to women/girls
Naveen Thacker - Implementation case study (immunisation during pregnancy): Brazil
Helena Sato - Implementation case study (immunisation during pregnancy): Rwanda
Hassan Sibomana - Panel and discussion
Suzanne Garland, Naveen Thacker, Amina Abubakar Bello, S. Shantha Kumari
Break
Breakout discussion groups – vaccination programme implementation: What works and what doesn't work?
Language: English only. No livestream available online (in-person only).
The objective is to recommend key strategies for the implementation of vaccine strategy in the chosen focus topic.
Close day 2
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Wednesday 6 July 2022 (day 3)
Morning programme
Vaccination programme implementation: What works and what doesn't work?
Language: English only. No livestream available online (in-person only).
The objective is to finalise recommendations to include key barriers and implementation strategies to address the prioritised focus areas of each working group.
On Day 3, group-work will focus on preparing for group presentations.
Break
Group presentations, discussion and summary
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Group presentations
- Develop a set of key best practice strategies for the sustainable implementation of vaccine programmes in LMICs
- Identify remaining questions, barriers, issues and future research areas
Closure
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish. Streamed online.
- Summary of workshop and objectives
- Leadership (FIGO perspective) and looking ahead
- Next steps