1Day Sooner

🚨 Vaccine Misinformation: A Global Health Threat In our interconnected world, misinformation spreads faster than ever, particularly in healthcare. Our latest blog post (https://lnkd.in/eUHjJ6SS) highlights the critical issue of vaccine misinformation and its impact on public health: -During COVID-19, 50% of misinformation spread via social media -12 social platforms drove 65% of COVID-19 misinformation on social platforms -Misinformation led to a 6% decrease in vaccine acceptance in the US and UK These lessons are crucial as we face new challenges with malaria vaccine deployment in Africa. What strategies have you seen work well in combating health misinformation? #publichealth #malaria

The recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper "Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?" underscores the importance of a target product profile (TPP) for public funders when deciding which innovative projects to pursue. That's why we've released a TPP Playbook to help design and conduct a formalized and consensus-based TPP process. https://lnkd.in/gmdw_GD8

We are excited to welcome Daniela M Ferreira to 1Day Sooner's Board of Directors! Professor Ferreria's wealth of experience in clinical research and human challenge trials will complement the expertise of our Board and help guide the organization in our fight against infectious diseases. https://lnkd.in/eRP72GpG

1Day Sooner is #hiring. We are looking for an Advocacy Lead to manage our in-house advocacy for our US campaigns. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gPE9kzSW #remotejobs

1Day Africa Director Zacharia Kafuko spoke at last week's Malaria Advocacy Workshop at the Mandela Washington Fellow Summit. A 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow himself, he educated attendees on how to start their advocacy journey and provided an update on Africa's #malaria vaccine deployment campaign.

In our latest blog post, Iain Macleod Briongos explains the safety profiles of #malaria vaccines and summarizes safety information from clinical trials. https://lnkd.in/eJEeD39P #pv #drugsafety

Come work with us! We are hiring for an Advocacy Lead to manage our in-house advocacy for our US campaigns. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gPE9kzSW #remotejobs #hiring

Read Dylan Matthews's latest article in Vox citing 1Day Sooner's malaria research in his latest Future Perfect column "The most crucial part of next year's federal budget," highlighting the work of one of the few causes to receive bipartisan support: https://lnkd.in/edqBuC3g

Ollie Sayeed's latest blog post, "10 country-specific insights from Africa's fight against malaria," gives readers a quick overview of the current progress in the #malaria vaccine roll-outs. https://lnkd.in/eJY7BDVw

📣 📰 New 1Day Africa analysis reveals that the R21 #malaria vaccine could rank as one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent malaria— but only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of R21 doses that can be produced in the next two years have been ordered. Read our press release for our full findings. https://lnkd.in/e_K_FzKa