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August 2023

Meet our Team: Holly

Holly Pappano is the new Communications Associate for the Shot@Life campaign. Learn more about her in this Q&A!

June 2023

World Refugee Day: Leaving No One Behind

World Refugee Day, observed every year on June 20, is an opportunity to highlight the resilience and strength of millions of refugees worldwide.

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June 2023

Two promising malaria vaccines: What comes next?

Learn more about what's next for the game-changing RTS,S and R21 vaccines, in collaboration with UN Foundation's United to Beat Malaria.

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June 2023

How Gavi Has Protected Over a Billion Lives With Vaccines

Ahead of Raising Generation ImmUnity, the upcoming summit led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, we are spotlighting their model and impact.  

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May 2023

Five Takeaways from the 2023 World Health Assembly

Read Executive Director Martha Rebour's key takeaways from the 2023 World Health Assembly.

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May 2023

Champion Spotlight: Priyambda Kumra

Priyambda Kumra is pursuing her master’s degree in public health (MPH) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her first dose of the flu vaccine after moving to the United States from India. She describes how her experiences motivate her to advocate for vaccines.

May 2023

Mother’s Day: Bella’s sacrifices to vaccinate her children

On Mother's Day, we recognize the stories of moms like Bella and the sacrifices they make so their children are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.

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May 2023

Advocate to Vaccinate 2023 Recap

Thanks to the dedication of hundreds of Shot@Life advocates across the country, members of Congress in all 50 states and DC heard the call for vaccines for all during Advocate to Vaccinate.

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May 2023

Champion Spotlight: Sydney Perlotto

Sydney Perlotto has extensive experience working with USAID, an agency that supports Shot@Life’s mission. Now, as a public health master’s student with a concentration in social and behavioral sciences at Yale University, she has joined Shot@Life’s cause as an advocate. 

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April 2023

Before vs. After: Vaccine Headlines Make a Comeback

During World Immunization Week, we explore the pandemic-driven declines in routine vaccinations and the risk of history repeating itself.

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April 2023

Champion Spotlight: Jaclyn Lo

After growing up in New Jersey, Canada, and Singapore, Jaclyn Lo moved back to Pennsylvania to pursue her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Bryn Mawr College. She explains how her various leadership and service opportunities impacted her work with Shot@Life as a first-time advocate.

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April 2023

World Health Day – Partnering to Achieve Universal Health Coverage

On the 75th anniversary of World Health Day, we celebrate the many achievements in public health, including the progress made toward achieving universal health coverage.

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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.
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
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
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.
 
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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.
Two weeks ago, the WHO issued an urgent call to action to prevent another mosquito-borne epidemic. Chikungunya virus swept the globe two decades ago, and outbreaks are now resurfacing from the Indian Ocean region to Europe.
 
Experts think the changing climate is playing a role, as the mosquitoes spreading this and other deadly diseases make their way into environments that were previously not warm enough.
 
Learn more about the connection between surging disease and climate in our latest blog. #linkinbio
New prevention tools like immunization have led to major breakthroughs when it comes to respiratory diseases.
 
But respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumococcal disease remain significant health problems globally. According to a recent panel at the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), the real power lies in how immunizations and other innovation are being rolled out.
 
From leveraging AI to optimize vaccine schedules to prioritizing monoclonal antibodies that can side-step vaccine hesitancy, the opportunities are endless.
 
But a unified call to action is needed to set these opportunities in motion—giving way to the power of community advocacy.
When we think of climate change, we usually picture melting glaciers or rising sea levels. But there’s another side to the climate crisis that doesn’t get talked about as much—how it’s helping diseases spread, including ones we already have vaccines for.
 
As our planet heats up, vaccine-preventable diseases are surfacing in places they’ve never been before.
 
But as a united front, we have the tools to fix it.
 
Read more in our latest blog. #linkinbio
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative works in the most difficult places around the world to deliver healthcare. But, thanks to the tireless efforts of frontline workers and tools like the oral polio vaccine, the number of children paralyzed has dropped by 99%.
 
Now, let’s stay committed to #EndPolio everywhere.

(Recorded Feb. 2025)
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