Think Tanks
 
 
Brookings [to 05 Feb 2022]
http://www.brookings.edu/
Accessed 05 Feb 2022
Africa in Focus
Figure of the week: Vaccine inequity in Africa
Sakinatou Djantchiemo and Tamara White
Friday, February 4, 2022
 
 
Center for Global Development [to 05 Feb 2022]
https://www.cgdev.org/
Publications [Selected]
January 28, 2022
Decentralized Purchasing of Essential Medicines and Its Impact on Availability, Prices, and Quality: A Review of Current Evidence
Providing patients with high-quality essential medicines requires a well-functioning procurement, distribution, and regulatory system. However, in many low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), public sector supply chain performance is far from optimal, resulting in frequent stockouts at health clinics. Decentralized purchasing of essential medicines by health facilities themselves provides greater autonomy to health facilities in managing their medicine stock, and has the potential to reduce essential medicine stockouts.
Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy and Prashant Yadav
 
 
Chatham House [to 05 Feb 2022]
https://www.chathamhouse.org/
Accessed 05 Feb 2022
World in brief: AU-EU summit
African states on the front foot as they demand action
The World Today 4 February 2022
The sixth African Union-European Union summit taking place in mid-February faces a fresh set of challenges as the world emerges from the Covid pandemic.

Traditionally held every three years, the previous summit was in 2017 in Côte d’Ivoire with this sixth summit being postponed due to the pandemic.

The two-day conference in Brussels from February 17 will move forward the debate on vaccine production and licensing, as well as exploring the deepening concerns over debt financing, infrastructure, migration, climate and security in the Sahel.

The African continent has been hard hit by the pandemic, with World Bank figures showing levels of debt in sub-Saharan low to middle-income countries reaching $702 billion in 2020, the highest in a decade.

Recent complaints by Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, of ‘vaccine apartheid’, along with similar grievances over Covid travel restrictions by other African leaders, have raised the temperature.
‘Covid is shaping the entire economic and political terrain of African states at the moment and there is a lot of bad blood,’ said Phil Clark, a professor of international politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

‘They are going to the summit with a fair amount of anger over how Europe has tackled Covid in Africa, and the EU will have their work cut out to move beyond that.’…

 
 
CSIS
https://www.csis.org/
Accessed 05 Feb 2022
Transcript
Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence at One Year
February 4, 2022
So I am particularly pleased to invite Heidi Larson, professor of anthropology, risk, and decision science, and director of The London School’s Vaccine Confidence Project, which she founded in 2010, to set the stage. Heidi is the author of the book “Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don’t Go Away,” which came out in the summer of 2020. Since 2015, she has been leading work on the Vaccine Confidence Index, which surveys vaccine attitudes in 60 to 70 countries. And this past December the BBC placed her on its prestigious 100 Women list, which last year highlighted those who are hitting reset, playing their part to reinvent our society, our culture, and our world.

Podcast Episode
Dr. Michael Osterholm: “Don’t Be Surprised When You Are Surprised.”
January 28, 2022 | By H. Andrew Schwartz, J. Stephen Morrison

Kaiser Family Foundation
https://www.kff.org/search/?post_type=press-release
Accessed 05 Feb 2022
February 1, 2022 News Release
Vaccine Monitor: 6 in 10 Parents of Teens and One-Third of Parents of 5-11 Year-Olds Say Their Child is Vaccinated for COVID-19, Both Up Since November
1 in 4 Parents Say Their Student Had to Quarantine in January Due to COVID-19 Infection or Exposure; Overall 4 in 10 Report Some Education Disruption Growing shares of parents say that their eligible children have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and three in ten parents…
 
 
Rand [to 05 Feb 2022]
https://www.rand.org/pubs.html
Reports, Selected Journal Articles
Report
The U.S. Equity-First Vaccination Initiative: Early Insights
The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative aims to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in U.S. coronavirus vaccination rates. Five demonstration sites are using hyper-local, community-led strategies to increase vaccine confidence and access.
Jan 28, 2022
Laura J. Faherty, Jeanne S. Ringel, Malcolm V. Williams, Ashley M. Kranz, Lilian Perez, Lucy Schulson, Allyson D. Gittens, Brian Phillips, Lawrence Baker, Priya Gandhi, Khadesia Howell, Rebecca Wolfe, Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle