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    Lessons learned from the Hib initiative

    Dr. Rana Hajjeh, division director at the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and 2014 U.S. Federal Employee of the Year, offers insight and advice in the wake of one of the most comprehensive vaccine initiatives in the development world.

    By Molly Anders // 11 November 2014

    For 2014’s U.S. Federal Employee of the Year, it’s not enough for health organizations to issue recommendations and expect people or governments to follow them. Change requires direct communication.

    Dr. Rana Hajjeh, division director of bacterial diseases with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was honored earlier this fall for her “significant contribution to the nation in activities related to national security and international affairs,” in an awards ceremony some refer to as the Oscars of U.S. government service.

    Hajjeh and her team led a global campaign to convince some of the world’s poorest countries to include a vaccine for bacterial meningitis and pneumonia in their vaccination programs. The vaccine counters the root cause, an organism known as haemophilus influenzae type b — or Hib — for which a vaccine has existed since the early 1990s.

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      Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

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