In September, Professor Julie Leask was involved in a vaccine champions training of trainers program in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. She joined Dr Delly Barbona from the Burnett Institute PNG and Dr Jessica Kaufman from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute to train master trainers from the Provincial Health Authorities, Care PNG and UNICEF. Trainers were from Madang, Morobe and Eastern Highlands provinces and will continue to train health workers and community leaders to improve uptake of childhood immunisation. The work is funded by the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance Regional Immunisation Support and Engagement (ARIA-RISE 2) scheme and UNICEF.
