Broadening Our Impact: How to Recruit New Champions
Looking for opportunities to increase your impact with Shot@Life in the new year? One of the easiest and most effective ways is to recruit new champions!
5 Reasons to Support Vaccines in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the immediate need for stronger funding in global immunization programs.
Achieving Universal Health Coverage – Health for All by 2030
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization said that achieving “health for all” should be put front and center in all development efforts, since “if there is no health, there is nothing.”
3 Reasons Why We Need Universal Health Coverage Now More than Ever
This Universal Health Coverage Day, we look at how now is the time to invest in world health programs supporting universal health care access.
Global Health Council Hosts Virtual Summit on Pandemics, Politics, and Privilege
This guest blog was submitted by Heyab Ogbasion and Ansley Kahn at Global Health Council, which brings together the global health community to raise awareness and catalyze action around important global health issues.
A Tribute to Flavia Nambi
Shot@Life team members honor the legacy left behind by Flavia Nambi, a Ugandan mother, nurse, and midwife and a dear friend to our organization.
Race to Erase 2020 Recap: Here’s What You Achieved
Champion Spotlight: Lukia Beverly
Highlights: Champion Advocacy on World Polio Day
Pakistan: Ending Polio During a Pandemic
Shot@Life Newsletter: September 2020
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Lately, it feels hard to keep up.
How to navigate misinformation, understanding rising issues like antimicrobial resistance, and even just learning the basics of taking action through advocacy can feel overwhelming.
That’s why, ahead of our quickly approaching #MobilizeToImmunize activation, we’ve built a resource library for you, our stellar advocates and supporters.
📌 Vaccines101
📌 Navigating misinformation
📌 Understanding AMR
📌 And more!
Use it. Share it. Power your advocacy efforts this fall. And don’t hesitate to let us know what you want added!
🔗 shotatlife.org/resources
Sep 11
Immunization may not as central to this year’s #UNGA80 discussions as in recent years, but health remains a critical part of the agenda.
This year’s High-Level Meetings in NYC will focus on noncommunicable diseases. And addressing #NCDs—like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory illnesses—requires integrated, preventive approaches that are closely linked with essential public health tools like immunization.
While vaccines are often associated with infectious disease control, they also play a pivotal role in reducing the burden of certain NCDs (for example, HPV and hepatitis B vaccines). Moreover, the infrastructure and trust built through immunization programs can strengthen the delivery of other health services, including those aimed at NCD prevention and care.
Health challenges do not exist in silos—and neither should our solutions.
Sep 9
When America helps fund immunization, medication, and malaria nets abroad, we’re not just lowering the risk of outbreaks that could hit us at home—we’re helping to ensure that children everywhere have the chance to grow up healthy.
College Ambassador Rani Chor spent this summer witnessing global health funding in action at Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia.
Empowering doctors, nurses, and other healthcare heroes in Cambodia and beyond MATTERS. Keep watching to learn why.
Sep 5
Another back to school season means another opportunity to help give children a shot at a healthy school year.
Help children across the globe get the necessary vaccines to safely return to school by donating at shotatlife.org/donate
Sep 3
Our 2025 #MobilizeToImmunize virtual Summit is just a few weeks away!
Registration is OPEN to join us on September 18 from 12-4 PM ET for expert updates on the latest Capitol Hill developments and beyond, insights on how Shot@Life and likeminded partners are shifting to meet the moment, and conversations with fellow advocates to increase our collective impact this fall.
Register today at the #linkinbio
Sep 2
Lessons learned from the ongoing mpox response efforts in Africa: vaccines matter, coordination saves lives, and country health systems must be ready to respond.
In the DRC, labs for testing, treating, and surveilling have increased from 2 to 69 in just one year.
In Sierra Leone, daily cases have dropped thanks to targeted vaccination campaigns and treatment centers.
And across the continent, almost 886,000 vaccines have been administered.
But the fight isn’t over yet.
Swipe to learn more.
Aug 28
Every time antibiotics are used unnecessarily, we give bacteria a chance to adapt, evolve, and become resistant. The result? Infections are harder—and sometimes impossible—to treat.
This is antimicrobial resistance (AMR). But what does #AMR really entail, and what can we do to prevent it?
Keep watching to get the answers from Dr. Kyu Rhee, a professor of medicine and lead AMR researcher at @weillcornell.
Aug 26
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK!
This is your final week to apply to the Global Health Advocacy College Ambassador Program, hosted jointly by Shot@Life and United to Beat Malaria.
Use your platform to educate and empower audiences on critical global health issues, and connect with other students, professionals, and leaders in the global health space along the way.
Last call, apply today! #linkinbio
Aug 25
Just last week, the WHO issued a new conditional recommendation for spatial repellents to control the spread of vector-borne diseases.
According to Dr. Daniel Ngamije, Director of Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO, this “opens the door to a new intervention for malaria control programs at a time when innovation is urgently needed.”
Paired with existing vaccines against vector-borne diseases like malaria (and soon enough, those against dengue), these tools will help to give everyone, everywhere a shot at life.
For more on spatial repellents and other malaria interventions, visit beatmalaria.org
Aug 22
Last week, our colleagues brought a delegation of senior U.S. Senate staff on a learning trip to Ethiopia.
The delegation saw firsthand the power of smart investments and deep partnerships between the Government of Ethiopia, multilateral organizations, and civil society in action. We learned about the remarkable strides Ethiopia has made towards building strong, sustainable, resilient health systems that reach people where they are. We also witnessed where sharp global funding reductions are threatening to reverse decades of progress.
We are deeply grateful to UNICEF for hosting the delegation, to the governments of Ethiopia and the Afar National Regional State for their warm welcome and generous hospitality, and to all of our partners whose life-saving work in the field we were able to highlight.
Aug 21
Health is humanitarian.
Reaching the world’s most vulnerable with lifesaving vaccines is the most surefire way to give everyone, everywhere a shot at life. And our humanitarian heroes are the ones that make it happen.
#WorldHumanitarianDay
Aug 19
Don’t miss your chance to apply to be a Global Health Advocacy College Ambassador! 🎓
Are you a strong student with a passion for global health and social impact? Are you interested in using your voice—online and offline—to spread awareness about global health issues like malaria, immunization, and more?
If this sounds like you or someone you know, learn more, submit an application, or spread the word using the #linkinbio.
Aug 14
Become a Shot@Life Champion
Are you ready to increase your commitment to fight for global vaccine equity? Sign up for an advocacy training and become a Shot@Life Champion!
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