Stripe
Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovation from Polio Eradication
Anna Kalbarczyk, Svea Closser, Selamawit Hirpa, Utsamani Cintyamena, Luthfi Azizatunnisa, Priyanka Agrawal, Ahmad Omid Rahimi, Oluwaseun O Akinyemi, Eric M Mafuta, Wakgari Deressa, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 07/18/2022
Country:
Global
Frontline workers (FLWs) in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative go door-to-door delivering polio vaccine to children. They have played a pivotal role in eliminating wild polio from most countries on earth; at the same time, they face significant bodily risk. STRIPE, an international consortium, conducted a mixed-methods study exploring the knowledge and experiences of polio staff in seven countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Nigeria...
Adetoun Olateju, Michael A Peters, Ikponmwosa Osaghae, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 06/30/2022
Country:
Global
Background Improving service delivery is a key strategy for achieving service coverage, one of the two components of universal health coverage (UHC). As one of the largest global public health initiatives, individuals involved with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have learned many important lessons about service delivery. We identified contributors and challenges to delivering health services at national and subnational levels using experiences from the GPEI. We described strategi...
Ikponmwosa Osaghae, Priyanka Agrawal, Adetoun Olateju, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 05/12/2022
Country:
Global
Objectives To document lessons from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) by determining factors associated with successful surveillance programme globally as well as at national and subnational levels. The process of conducting surveillance has been previously recognised in the literature as important for the success of polio surveillance activities. Design A cross-sectional survey with closed and open-ended questions. Settings Survey of persons involved in the implementation of survei...
Anna Kalbarczyk, Svea Closser, Aditi Rao, Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Humayra Binte Anwar, Eric Mafuta, Piyusha Majumdar, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 09/01/2021
Country:
Global
Lessons learned from one global health program can inform responses to challenges faced by other programs. One way to disseminate these lessons is through courses. However, such courses are often delivered by and taught to people based in high-income countries and thus may not present a truly global perspective. The Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovations from Polio Eradication (STRIPE) is a consortium of 8 institutions in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Con...
Anna Kalbarczyk, Aditi Rao, Adedamola Adebayo, Ellie Decker, Sue Gerber, Rosemary Morgan
Journal Article
Published: 06/29/2021
Country:
Global
Background Globally, gender as a barrier or facilitator in achieving health outcomes is increasingly being documented. However, the role of gender in health programming and organization is frequently ignored. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, one of the largest globally coordinated public health programs in history, has faced and worked to address gender-based challenges as they emerge. This paper seeks to describe the role of gender power relations in the polio program across global, nat...
Daniela C Rodriguez, Abigail H Neel, Yodi Mahendradhata, Wakgari Deressa, Eme Owoaje, Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Malabika Sarker, Eric Mafuta, Shiv D Gupta, Ahmad Shah Salehi, Anika Jain, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 04/21/2021
Country:
Global
Vertical disease control programmes have enormous potential to benefit or weaken health systems, and it is critical to understand how programmes’ design and implementation impact the health systems and communities in which they operate. We use the Develop–Distort Dilemma (DDD) framework to understand how the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) distorted or developed local health systems. We include document review and 176 interviews with respondents at the global level and across seven fo...
Meike Schleiff, Adetoun Olateju, Ellie Decker, Abigail H Neel, Rasheedat Oke, Michael A Peters, Aditi Rao, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 12/18/2020
Country:
Global
Background Previous initiatives have aimed to document the history and legacy of the Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP) and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). In this multi-pronged scoping review, we explored the evolution and learning from SEP and GPEI implementation over time at global and country levels to inform other global health programs. Methods Three related reviews of literature were conducted; we searched for documents on 1) the SEP and 2) GPEI via online database searche...
Olakunle Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 08/12/2020
Country:
Global
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) – a global effort to eradicate polio (poliovirus and its debilitating diseases, e.g. severe forms of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)) through vaccination and active surveillance – is the largest public health initiative in recent history. Since 1988, the program has delivered hundreds of billion doses of polio vaccines and vaccinated more than 2.5 billion children globally [1]. This effort has contributed to successfully wiping out cases of wild polio...