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Norwegian Perspectives on Immunization: A Positive Response to Public Health Advocacy during COVID-19Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health inequity has become increasingly apparent. The public health workforce has rapidly mobilized to advocate for at-risk...

Building Confidence in COVID-19 VaccinationThe COVID-19 vaccines bring the promise of a global rescue from the coronavirus pandemic; however, building people’s confidence in these new vaccines seems to be a herculean task. Myths and misinformation are arising online...

COVID-19 Immunization and Mitigating Vaccine HesitancyPreventing millions of deaths annually has been attributed to immunization, and its development is regarded as a significant global health achievement (WHO 2020). In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians...

Rejecting All Collaborations of Public Health Organizations with the Tobacco IndustryThe tobacco epidemic is an urgent public health concern, with tobacco use responsible for more than 8 million deaths annually. In 2003, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the WHO...

Statement on COVID-19 Immunization and Equitable Access to Vaccines Immunization is one of the most successful public health measures of modern times. Annually immunization prevents an estimated 2.5 million deaths globally and reduces disease-specific treatment costs...

Public Health Answers: How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Health Inequities?Health inequities have always been a challenge to society. To get a deeper understanding on how the current pandemic has affected health inequities, we talk to Sharon Friel, Professor of...

Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccination: A Distant Dream?The race to produce a safe and efficacious vaccine for COVID-19 has been on-going and there are indications that success may not be too far away. Wealthy nations are trying to secure early access to COVID-19...

Being Rich and Sick Is Much Better than Being Poor and Sick!With more vaccines on the way, we can see an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. But it remains to be seen how the vaccines will be distributed. Implementing the letter which our member the Norwegian Public Health...

COVID-19 Vaccination: A Question about Global Equity in HealthCOVID-19 has had no respect for borders! Vaccines against COVID-19 will be a scarce good, at least for some time ahead. Therefore, both in order to achieve the best possible population effect and to ensure...

16th World Congress on Public Health: Personal ExperiencesIn October, several interns from the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) were invited to help organize and attend the virtual 16th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH 2020). In the past, we...