🚀Boost Champion Series Continues: Polio Vaccination in Urban Settings

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 Polio Vaccination in Urban Settings: Challenges & Strategies to Reduce Missed Children & Improve Coverage

Thursday, July 24, 2025

1:00 PM GMT (see local time)

Join us for the next exciting session in our Boost Community Champion Live Engagement Series, hosted this month by Tina Agbonyinma!

This interactive session will dive into the unique challenges and innovative solutions surrounding polio vaccination in urban settings. Together, we will:

  1. Explore the key challenges—both adaptive and technical—faced during polio campaigns in densely populated urban areas.
  2. Discover new, targeted strategies designed to effectively reach and vaccinate children in these complex environments.
  3. Engage in peer learning by sharing experiences, insights, and best practices with fellow immunization champions from around the world.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and lead the way in advancing polio eradication efforts in urban communities.

Come ready to engage, learn and contribute!

PROGRAM

Introduction & Context

Key Challenges

Proven Strategies

✨ Interactive Collaboration

✨ Q&A

SPEAKER

Tina Iroghama Agbonyinma

Social and Behavior Change Facilitator -Polio

Kano, Nigeria

Tina Iroghama Agbonyinma is a seasoned immunization expert with over a decade of experience in polio eradication, routine immunization planning, and outbreak response for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases in Nigeria. She currently serves as the Social and Behavior Change Facilitator – Polio in Northwestern Nigeria, where she provides technical support to ensure effective implementation of UNICEF-led social and behavior change initiatives.

Tina specializes in influencing individual and community attitudes, beliefs, and practices to drive measurable behavior change. Her work focuses on advocacy, communication, community engagement, and promoting equity in immunization and vaccine acceptance, particularly at the sub-national level in Kano State.

An active member of Sabin's Boost Community, Tina contributes to community growth through learning, sharing, leadership, and upholding Boost’s core values. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration, with a focus on maternal and child health development.

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