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Recording and Resources
From Ebola to COVID-19: Lessons from EBODAC
A World Vision Health & Nutrition
Community of Practice Webinar
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the From Ebola to COVID-19: Lessons from EBODAC webinar held on 17 March 2021.
If you were unable to attend, check out the webinar resources below:
- Guide: A guidebook on Community Engagement, Communications, and Technology for Clinical Trials in Outbreak Settings. Click here
- Article (BMC Public Health): Power, fairness, and trust: understanding and engaging with vaccine trial participants and communities in the setting up the EBOVAC-Salone vaccine trial in Sierra Leone. Click here
- Presentation (ICT4D): Making enabling technologies work in Prime-Boost vaccination programs. Click here
- Article (BMC Public Health): Controversial Ebola vaccine trials in Ghana: a thematic analysis of critiques and rebuttals in digital news. Click here
- Article (BMC Research Notes): Overcoming the challenges of iris scanning to identify minors (1–4 years) in the real-world setting. Click here
- Article (mHealth): Mobile training and support (MOTS) service—using technology to increase Ebola preparedness of remotely-located community health workers. Click here
- Article (Am J Compt Sci Inform Technol): Assessment of the Readiness of Community Health Workers to Participate in a Mobile Training and Support Services Innovation: Results of a Functionality Assessment in Bo District, Sierra Leone 2018. Click here
- Tool: EBODAC 3C Gap Analysis Tool. Click here
The EBODAC (Ebola Vaccine Deployment, Acceptance, and Compliance) project developed strategies and tools to promote the acceptance and update of new Ebola vaccines and was implemented over five years in DRC, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. EBODAC used community engagement, enabling technologies such as iris scanning and phone messaging as well as clear communication methods to build trust and address misconceptions surrounding the vaccine in the community. In addition, local knowledge and capacity were built and health systems strengthened through working with Ministries of Health and Community Health Workers by providing training and preparedness activities for the potential future deployment of a licensed vaccine.
EBODAC's digital health innovation, called Mobile Training and Support Service (MOTS) and built on the Grameen Foundation’s MOTECH platform, aimed to strengthen networks of front-line health workers and ensure epidemic preparedness, including support for Ebola vaccine campaigns. While initially designed to train CHWs to support vaccine-related programmes, the MOTS system was readily repurposed as part of World Vision's COVID-19 response in 2020. This has alleviated the re-training challenge that the health system faced in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers
The EBODAC consortium was funded by the European Union through the Innovative Medicines Initiative and brought together the expertise and resources of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, World Vision Ireland, and the Grameen Foundation. This project received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement EBODAC (grant nr. 115847). This Joint undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA.2.
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