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Immunization Focus is issued quarterly on the GAVI website.

It is intended to provide updates and topical debate about key immunization issues at national and international level. It can also be sent to you by email.

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Letters to the editor are welcome: please write via the
GAVI Secretariat,
c/o UNICEF,
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1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland
or Gavi@unicef.org

Editor: Phyllida Brown

Publisher: Dr Tore Godal, GAVI Secretariat, C/O UNICEF, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Email: Gavi@unicef.org

External Editorial Board:

• Maria Otelia Costales, Country Representative, AVSC International, The Philippines;

• Shawn Gilchrist, vaccine industry representative, Aventis Pasteur, Toronto, Canada

• Keith Klugman, Director, Pneumococcal Diseases Research Unit, South African Institute for Medical Research, South Africa;
• P. Helena Mäkelä, National Public Health Institute, Finland;
• Philip Minor, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, United Kingdom;
• Khadija Msambichaka, Tanzania;
• Francis Nkrumah, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana;
• Paul Offit, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, United States, and Member, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices;
• Mohammed Ashraf Uddin, Chief Health Officer, Dhaka City Corporation, Bangladesh

The views expressed in Immunization Focus are not necessarily the views of the GAVI Board.

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