Health campaigns are defined as time-bound, intermittent activities that deal with particular epidemiologic challenges, quickly close delivery gaps or offer supplemental coverage for health initiatives. Integrating health campaigns can be used by programs and organizations to enable co-delivery and collaboration among public health efforts with the goal of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of several interventions. The notion of integration is especially salient in the WHO NTD 2021-2030 roadmap which emphasizes the need for cross-cutting approaches which include improving integration across NTD programs.

Given the importance of mass drug administration as a health campaign to control and eliminate some of the neglected tropical diseases, we set out to learn more about leveraging the power of campaign integration to improve NTD programs. In this episode, we speak to Mariana Sarmiento & Dr. Eva Bazant.

Podcast Guests

• Mariana Sarmiento


• Dr. Eva Bazant

Podcast Host(s)

• Nikhil D. Patil

Podcast Narrator and Producer:

• Leshawn Benedict

Resources:

• SIGIT


• Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition


• Case study from the Univ. de los Andes team in Colombia