News
5 Reasons the Global Gap in Rotavirus Vaccine Access is Shrinking
Mathuram Santosham, the chair of Rotacouncil, produced this piece originally for inpatient optimists.org. When I started my career in the 1970’s, I saw children die every day from severe diarrheal disease. Today, diarrhea is still responsible for half a million deaths...
Opportunities for Expanding Vaccine Access in Asia Pacific Region
Council member Tony Nelson and colleagues organized a rotavirus advocacy workshop at the 13th Congress of Asian Society for Pediatric Research on October 5, 2017. Speakers from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and...
September 2017 Progress Update
Dear ROTA Council members, partners, and supporters, I am excited to welcome a new member of our Council. Dr. Fredrick Were, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nairobi, is known for his passionate advocacy for childhood immunization and his...
Singapore journalist training outputs continue—New articles published in Nepal, Myanmar
ROTA Council would like to share news stories published since the Council's Singapore journalist training. To date, reporters have published and broadcasted a dozen stories in five countries. Common, Severe, Preventable: Rotavirus disease and the role of media -...
Rotavirus vaccine makes headlines in Bangladesh, Mongolia, and the Philippines
The ROTA Council recently hosted a workshop in Singapore for leading health journalists from six Asian countries featuring speakers and facilitators from CDC, Global Health Strategies, PATH, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See a description of the event...