Vaccine Safety

Background

As an International Consultant with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) I have been involved in the regional project of the Americas focused on Strengthening the national and regional surveillance of Events Supposedly Attributable to Vaccination/Immunization (ESAVI). Our activities center around four (4) main support packages: 1) Training; 2) Monitoring and Evaluation; 3) Information Systems; 4) Active Surveillance

As a member of a larger team; my work focuses on selected countries within the Caribbean Sub-Region: Trinidad and Tobago; Suriname; Jamaica; Turks and Caicos; Bahamas; Cayman Islands; Bermuda; Aruba; Curacao; Saba; Belize; Barbados; Saint Lucia; Antigua and Barbuda; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Guyana and Grenada.

From a regional level I have supported the digital transformation of country level database into the PAHO regional vaccine safety database.

Supported countries in developing national manuals for ESAVI surveillance; developement of digital tools to support data caputre and adapting/reviewing technical documents targeted at defining roles and resposibilities with the national ESAVI surveillance system. 

For further details of the regional team efforts in the Americas in strengthening national vaccine surveillance systems please see the publication below

https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/57547/OPSCIM230001_spa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y