Advancing vaccine equity with big data and digital health tools
Providing practical examples of how data analytics and digital health solutions can help transform immunisation strategies
Despite substantial global progress in improving uptake of childhood vaccinations, millions remain unprotected from preventable diseases due to unequal access to vaccines. This seminar explores how cutting-edge data analytics and innovative digital health solutions are transforming immunisation strategies and ensuring equitable vaccine access. Using practical examples from an LMIC-setting, the talk will explore how electronic immunisation registries and other digital health tools can provide individual-level data to:
- Identify underserved communities facing vaccination gaps. Learn how data-driven approaches can pinpoint areas and population segments with low vaccination rates, helping to focus resources where they are needed most.
- Track and improve vaccination coverage in real-time. Discover how real-time data collection and analysis can enhance monitoring and decision-making processes, ensuring that no child is left behind.
- Design targeted interventions to reach those most in need. Understand how tailored strategies can be developed to address specific barriers and improve vaccination uptake among marginalised populations.
- Personalise care for underserved populations. Explore how digital health tools can facilitate personalised care plans, ensuring that interventions are culturally sensitive and contextually appropriate.
Speaker
Danya Arif Siddiqi
Danya Arif Siddiqi is an Honorary Assistant Professor at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM.
Danya’s work centres on improving equitable access to healthcare through evaluating and scaling up evidence-based maternal and child health interventions across a range of low-and-middle income settings. Danya’s work spans both large-scale service delivery as well as focused research efforts. On the service delivery side, she provides technical assistance to governments and helps strengthen health systems. Within research, she has conducted qualitative and quantitative studies, including randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to generate evidence for interventions that promote equitable healthcare access and improve maternal and child health outcomes. Broadly, her research efforts are focused on vaccine-preventable diseases, economic incentives, performance management and empowerment of frontline health workers, gender inequity in immunisations, electronic immunisation registries, big data and geospatial analysis, and operational research. She is particularly interested in harnessing mHealth tools to address healthcare challenges effectively.
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