Friday, March 21, 2025 | New Delhi
Our first panel discussion, ‘Immunization for a Healthy Workforce and Healthy Families’, witnessed an engaging conversation on the importance of including vaccination as one of employers’ prime offerings for the well-being of employees and their families.
Other aspects touched on missing data on the Indian population and various enablers and barriers to implementation.
The session was moderated by Dr. Ratna Devi, with a stellar panel of experts:
- Col. Dr. Manu Chopra
- DR. AMIT KUMAR GUPTA
- Dr. Shubnum Singh
- Dr. Suneela Garg
- Prof. Parvaiz Koul
The second panel discussion, titled ‘Life Course Immunization and Enabling Ecosystem: Policy, Practice and Implementation’, touched on existing policies, practices, and strategies to effectively implement new guidelines.
The discussion identified critical gaps and touched on unified policy and guidelines, vaccine hesitancy, and improving sufficient awareness about the benefits of the life course immunization approach.
This session was moderated by Dr. V K Sashindran and Dr Kavita Singh with a panel featuring:
- Dr Rakesh Kakkar
- Dr. Arindam Ray, Gates Foundation
- Dr. Naveen R Thacker,
- Dr. Subramanian Swaminathan
- Dr. Agam Vora
- Dr. Madhur Verma
- Dr. JAYESH LELE
- Dr. Tiny Nair
- Dr Satyabrata Routray
- Dr Madhu Gupta
Our final session was on ‘PSUs: Ongoing Practices and Future Plans’, and the session focused on steps taken by various PSUs to implement life course immunization guidelines in their respective organizations, and mapping out the future roadmap to ensure sufficient adoption by employees.
Dr. Raj Shankar Ghosh moderated the session, which included:
- Dr Sandeep Sharma
- Dr Rajeev Gambhir
- Dr. Kamal Purshottam
- Dr. Sushma Trivedi
- Rajiv Kumar Jain
- Dr. Kamla Fartyal
- Dr. Rajat Kumar Saha
