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Immunization Focus is issued quarterly on the GAVI website.

It is intended to provide updates and topical debate about key immunization issues at national and international level. It can also be sent to you by email.

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Editor: Phyllida Brown

GAVI Editorial Adviser: Lisa Jacobs

Vaccine Fund Editorial Adviser: Victor Zonana

Publisher: Dr Tore Godal, GAVI Secretariat, C/O UNICEF, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Email: Gavi@unicef.org

External Editorial Board:

• Maria Otelia Costales, UNICEF, New York, USA;

• Shawn Gilchrist, Vaccine Industry Representative, Aventis Pasteur, Toronto, Canada

• Keith Klugman, Emory University, Atlanta, USA;
• P. Helena Mäkelä, National Public Health Institute, Finland;
• Philip Minor, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, United Kingdom;
• Khadija Msambichaka, Zimbabwe;
• Francis Nkrumah, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana;
• Paul Offit, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, and Member, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices;
• Mohammed Ashraf Uddin, Chief Health Officer, Dhaka City Corporation, Bangladesh

The views expressed in Immunization Focus are not necessarily the views of the GAVI Board.

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