As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, managing the response is a complex undertaking requiring knowledge sharing, coordination, and continuous learning among stakeholders. USAID’s Global Health Bureau’s COVID-19 Response Team seeks to proactively respond to global needs for emergency COVID-19 programming through cross-cutting coordination, continuous learning and improvement, and knowledge exchange.
USAID’s Global Health Bureau awarded Knowledge SUCCESS with funding to provide technical assistance to the COVID-19 vaccine response in the form of knowledge management, synthesis, and sharing.
Dozens of stakeholders have contributed to USAID’s COVID-19 vaccine response.
This interactive dashboard summarizes the various activities that have been implemented, and in what countries. The dashboard also includes key resources and project details. This tool is an archive of the COVID-19 emergency response but also a reference for future pandemics and global health crises.
Past Webinar: Integrating the COVID-19 Vaccine into Primary Health Care: Lessons from the Experience in South Africa
Resources from the July 27, 2023 webinar:
Find event materials from the July 20, 2023 webinar, How to Integrate COVID-19 Vaccination Into Primary Health Care: A Review of Tools, Guidance, and Country Experiences.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, KM must be practical, adaptable, and sustainable in a wide range of contexts to USAID staff, Missions, programs, and implementing partners, and must align with USAID’s commitment to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA). As such, Knowledge SUCCESS plans a variety of activities that will facilitate knowledge exchange and sharing among key stakeholders in COVID-19 vaccine response and vaccination programming, document lessons learned, and provide learning opportunities for implementing partners to enhance their response efforts and prepare for future health emergencies.
Specifically, Knowledge SUCCESS will:
Knowledge SUCCESS will collaborate closely with COVID-19 vaccine implementing partners and other stakeholders.
With these activities, Knowledge SUCCESS and USAID envision a future in which health systems are resilient and ready, and the next global health emergency has a lesser impact on health systems, countries, and communities, and thus less lives lost.
To learn more, read Knowledge SUCCESS to Provide KM Support to Global COVID-19 Vaccination Response.
Anne is a Senior Program Officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and serves as Knowledge Management Technical Lead for this scope of work.
Erica is a Senior Strategic Communication Advisor at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and serves as COVID-19 Technical Lead for this scope of work.