What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows Ellyn W. Ogden, MPH. On Ellyn Ogden’s desk sits a decades old coffee mug. It has a special significance for the woman who has led polio eradication for the US Agency for International Development...
by Elizabeth Schroederreposted from Rotary.org The logistics of shipping and storing vaccines A mass, worldwide vaccination effort is crucial to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic — but the logistics of getting it done are incredibly complex. Two of...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows Dr Leone Farrell, PhD. Dr Farrell, was one one of the many female scientists who received less than appropriate recognition for their contributions to science. Dr Farrell was a key figure in the...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows Somali children waiting for their Polio vaccinations. Dr Hamid Jafari, Director of Polio Eradication for WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, recently declared Somalia’s outbreak of circulating...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows The World Immunization Week logo. Join with Rotary to promote the power of vaccines. During World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, join with Rotary to combat vaccine hesitancy and misinformation by...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he visits a West Virginia foundation for children with disabilities in 1935. FDR would go on to found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows an ongoing Polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, we received some very sad news from Afghanistan this week. See below. From Sharif HassanThe Washington Post 3/30/21 March 30,...
What is that Polio Picture? This picture shows Hira, a UNICEF consultant for the Polio program. Today she is visiting parents who are refusing to let their children be vaccinated to explain why the two drops of oral polio vaccine (OPV) are critical...