This project, now in its second phase, aims to create an enabling environment for vaccines in India and contribute to improvements in overall child health. Specifically, this project focuses on enabling timely, evidence-based policies and decisions for nationwide introduction and delivery of pentavalent vaccines, rotavirus vaccines, and pneumococcal vaccines into India Universal Immunization Program, while simultaneously increasing demand for and urgency around the value of vaccines and a high quality routine immunization system as a necessary part of cost-effective, integrated public health system.

• Mathuram Santosham, MD MPH