“Leveraging Immunization Innovations to Modernize Primary Health Care”

To All Innovators, Innovation Users, Innovation Enablers, and Researchers around the world…

Save the Date for KLIC2024! The Second Innovation Lab Event of KLIC!

19-21 November 2024

Onsite in Cotonou, Benin
Online participation available

What is KLIC?

Established by GaneshAID, the Knowledge Lab for Innovation Community (KLIC) is a pioneering think tank and network committed to informing countries about available health innovations and accelerating their evidence-based implementation and scale-up at the country level. We aim to strengthen countries’ capacity to lead and manage the implementation and scale-up of pro-equity innovations, fostering a country-led movement of health system modernization.

Mission

Nurturing innovative thinking for novel solutions
to address immunization equity obstacles.

Vision

Inspire all Governments with impactful innovations
for modern health and immunization systems
that reach all communities.

What does KLIC do?

Connect

Support

Inspire

Build

Why Countries Need to Leverage Vaccination Innovations
to Modernize Primary Health Care (PHC)?

Continuum of Integration to Reach All Communities

Integrated health systems are recognized as major contributors to better distribution of health outcomes and improved well-being. In emergency conditions, integrated health services can ensure better access to the target population. In recent years, several crises, including conflicts, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics, have led to a major change in the health-seeking behavior of communities, with preventive services being relegated to the background despite their availability and curative health services being sought as late as possible.

Routine immunization has long been integrated into many programmes, such as Vitamin A supplementation, growth monitoring, deworming or insecticide-treated mosquito nets. The importance of integration, both in health systems in general and in immunization programmes in particular, has been steadily growing, and this is reflected in a wide range of global policies and strategies.

IA2030: Global Convergence of Immunization Integration in PHC

The Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) sets out a global vision and strategy for vaccines and immunization for the decade 2021-2030. For immunization programme to be effective in strengthening PHC through FY2030, domestic financing and official development assistance (ODA) must be aligned across development partners, as well as aligned with national targets. GaneshAID and its partners are supporting countries to expand immunization services to reach under-immunized and zero-dose children on a regular basis, while expanding full immunization through routine services and helping to strengthen a stronger PHC platform through immunization scale-up efforts.

Globally, many efforts have been made to synchronize immunization services with other country-specific areas or areas of concern in many countries, such as the application of the primary health care lens to Gavi programmes, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Maternal and Child Survival Programme (MCSP) which has helped Liberia’s Ministry of Health to scale up integrated family planning and immunization services as part of a broader programme of service delivery and health system recovery after the Ebola outbreak.

Immunization as an entry point to primary health care

A significant decline in immunization coverage and an overburdened public health system pose a risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and urgent intervention is needed to address the immune gap. Today, the vaccination platform as an entry point to reach communities through differentiated/targeted service delivery, identification and reach of zero-dose communities, demand generation, community engagement, and other services can be replicated for other programmes, including but not limited to those for maternal and child health, reproductive health, and family planning, nutrition, early childhood development, COVID-19, children with disabilities, social protection, education, health emergencies like cholera, etc., and these can support each other.

Innovations to Increase the Reach and Impact of PHC

Current knowledge, tools, and practices alone will not be enough to achieve equitable coverage targets, and this is why the IA2030 strategic priorities focus on improving global and national research and innovation capacities to increase equitable vaccination coverage, extend the benefits of vaccination to other populations, identify and respond to unmet needs and emerging challenges.

The IA2030 strategic priorities highlight specific research and innovation needs for immunization programmes but also the PHC platform, in the context of the integration continuum. Thus, GaneshAID and its partners wish, through the KLIC initiative, to participate in the response to these research and innovation needs.

The Goals of KLIC2024 Are to…

Organize knowledge on approaches to integrating immunization-based innovations into the PHC platform and health systems, and vice versa.

Promote research and intelligence systems
to prioritize relevant and sustainable innovations.

Specifically, KLIC2024 Aims to…

Document innovative strategies to mitigate vaccine misinformation.

Map pioneering solutions to reach underserved populations in rural, conflict, peri-urban, and special populations areas.

Share revolutionary approaches to fighting epidemics and supporting humanitarian aid.

Improve the innovation ecosystem at the country level.

Thematic Menu of KLIC2024

Abstract submissions are open until September 27th, 2024. Following a selection process, successful authors will be notified by October 11th, 2024 and will present their materials by November 1st, 2024 to the Technical Committee.

You are welcome to submit your abstract HERE!

  • Strategic vision of innovation and modernization plan.
  • Enablers and levers in Asia and Africa.
  • Transformative leadership, governance, and aligned accountability.
  • Gender-related obstacles and facilitators.
  • Implementation research to drive policy and strategies.
  • Incorporating communities and health workforce preferences and values.
  • Innovative partnerships and multi-sectoral collaboration: extending collaboration within the public health system, across parts of Government, CSOs, Humanitarian agencies, private sector, education, and agriculture.
  • Innovative Products (Medicines, Medical equipment, other health commodities).
  • Innovative Services (prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care).
  • Innovative Approaches/practices to improve access.
  • Raising Patient/community voices.
  • Telemedicine and Teleconsultation
  • Digital medical records
  • Data analytics: data visualization, projection, and predictions of diseases and services access
  • Smart apps to assess disease risks, access services, and dangers of misinformation
  • Artificial Intelligence in immunization and PHC
    • Machine learning and data science
    • Behavior analysis through social media and patient-generated data (NLP)
    • Prediction of loneliness in older adults (NLU)
    • Removing identifiers from electronic health records data (NLG)
    • Search engine to evaluate and analyze information about a disease (cognitive search)
    • Decision-making through modelling and understanding of multiple variables and complex systems (digital decision platforms)
    • Disinfection of areas, delivery of medications & health commodities, measuring of vital signs in the COVID-19 environment (robotic)
    • Healthy lifestyle/wellness, mental health, reproductive health, weight control, and virtual agents/chatbots
    • Medical imaging and predictive modelling
    • Deep learning algorithm for detection of diseases
    • Analysis of human behaviors and states (speech analytics)
  • Task shifting, training, and quality of services.
  • Community health workers to counter disinformation and promote health services.
  • Performance coaching management.
  • Collaborative intelligence and knowledge management.
  • Innovation/modernization strategy at the country level.
  • Innovation fund: securing modernization continuum.
  • Building the capacity of the health workforce to introduce/manage innovation.

Sponsorship

$30,000

  • Enhanced branding visibility
  • Networking opportunities
  • Logo on event materials and website
  • Acknowledgement in event mailings
  • Feature in Sponsor highlight email
  • 03-minute video and 200-word paragraph of introduction on KLIC’s dedicated website
  • 05 free-of-charge participants
  • Social media spotlight posts
  • Exhibition booth in Innovation Marketplace available (3×3 m)
  • On-site assistance
  • Invitation to hosting/facilitating a session with topics in consensus
  • Invitation to networking events post KLIC2024
  • Invitation to deliver 05-minute opening and closing keynote remarks

$20,000

  • Enhanced branding visibility
  • Networking opportunities
  • Logo on event materials and website
  • Acknowledgement in event mailings
  • Feature in Sponsor highlight email
  • 200-word paragraph of introduction on KLIC’s dedicated website
  • 03 free-of-charge participants
  • Social media spotlight posts
  • Exhibition booth in Innovation Marketplace available (3×2 m)
  • On-site assistance
  • Invitation to hosting/facilitating a session with topics in consensus
  • Invitation to networking events post KLIC2024

$15,000

  • Enhanced branding visibility
  • Networking opportunities
  • Logo on event materials and website
  • Acknowledgement in event mailings
  • Feature in Sponsor highlight email
  • 150-word paragraph of introduction on KLIC’s dedicated website
  • 02 free-of-charge participants
  • Social media spotlight posts
  • Exhibition booth in Innovation Marketplace available (2×2 m)

$10,000

  • Enhanced branding visibility
  • Networking opportunities
  • Logo on event materials and website
  • Acknowledgement in event mailings
  • Feature in Sponsor highlight email
  • 100-word paragraph of introduction on KLIC’s dedicated website
  • 01 free-of-charge participants

$5,000

  • Enhanced branding visibility
  • Networking opportunities
  • Logo on event materials and website

Key Findings from the last Innovation Lab Event – KLIC2023

SHARED OBSTACLES

Knowledge sharing revealed the same obstacles faced by African and Asian countries.

ISOLATED INNOVATIONS

South-South cross-learning revealed that many helpful innovations remain unknown due to a lack of information or evidence.

INSUFFICIENT CAPACITIES

Governments’ capacities to drive the innovation agenda require strengthening.

READINESS

Countries are willing to innovate and modernize immunisation programs.

FRAGMENTED INNOVATION INFORMATION

There is an urgent need to invest in innovation intelligence to optimize innovation processes.

INNOVATION STRATEGIES

Innovation has to become an integral part of policymaking and service delivery for systematic adaptation in times of change.

The post-event report of the First Innovation Lab event, KLIC2023. Download the report and find out what our community of innovation was working on!

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Become a part of this dynamic community that values knowledge creation and sharing to solve the most pressing health challenges of our time. Engage with KLIC to learn more about our work and how you can contribute to the health system modernization in LMICs.

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