Belle Overmars

Murdoch Children's Vaccine Champions Prog empowers community leaders to become #vaccine advocates. Recent efforts by @DanchinMargie @BelleOvermars & @JessicaJKaufman in #Fiji helped promote #healthliteracy & ⬆️#vaccination rates. 🔗mcri.edu.au/research/proje… youtube.com/watch?v=0rFWCk…

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to attend this conference with such amazing people. #CDIC2023 @DanchinMargie @BelleOvermars @JessicaJKaufman

I'm honoured and privileged to be able to present my short abstract, using native language and interactive social media tools to promote vaccines in Fiji, which was accepted for #CDIC2023 in Perth Australia. Thanks to Kylie Jenkins, @DanchinMargie @MCRI_for_kids and @JulieLeask

Very proud of my team & PhD students on presenting their work to understand the social & behavioral drivers of vaccine uptake and the role of multi-component interventions in LMICs and vaccine champions at #CDIC2023 ⁦⁦@_PHAA_⁩ ⁦@MCRI_for_kids⁩ ⁦@UNICEF⁩ 👇

Session on vaccinating priority populations showed the success of programs that were tailored and culturally safe, including outreach and convenient services, disseminated translated information, utilising multilingual staff, and providing info in multiple formats #cdic2023

@YasminMinoo presents on mapping multicomponent interventions to improve vaccine uptake in LMIC - a task often avoided as it comes with complexities - well done Yas @_PHAA_ #CDIC2023

Todays #CDIC2023 plenary speaker @DubeEve just gave a shout out to the the Australian immunisation social scientists, for being leaders in their field! @COSSI_Vaccine Too many to mention but you know who you are!!

Embedding standards for the conduct of Aboriginal health research into all stages of the job - created and presented by the Telethon Institute today at @_PHAA_ #cdic2023 by Cheryl Bridge & Jacinta Walton. Imaged grabbed from the Telethon website.

@JanetSmylie speaks to the experience of indigenous-led health approaches in colonial Toronto, with parallels and implications for Australia “It’s easy to draw pictures but harder to change them” at the @_PHAA_ #cdic2023 today

Such an important study looking at the social and behavioural drivers of vaccine uptake in Fiji. @BelleOvermars #CDIC2023 @JaneFrawley

@BelleOvermars discussing the themes found in community discussions surrounding immunisation behaviour in Fiji during the #BIRD study Feelings of being coerced into the primary dose by the health mandate led to high reluctance to access booster doses #CDIC23 #PHAA

Huyen Thi Nguyen presents on measles notifications at the National Hospital in Vietnam 2017-19. Most cases were in those under <9m old who were ineligible for the vaccine - and a large number were hospital acquired.

Kiya Shipley speaks about their incredible work adapting the SKAI resource for providers to engage with First Nations families - available on the @NCIRS website

Thanks @COSSI_Vaccine @joshkarras for putting on a great early career event where we were lucky to speak with Australian social science experts and hear about their pivotal moments in their careers - cheers!!

Great way to kick off the @_PHAA_ #cdic2023 in Boorloo (Perth) today - an update from the virtual Mark Butler about commitments from the Aus budget to make (1) vax delivery available through pharmacies and (2) shingles vax available for high risk community members

Great to see the Vaccine Champions program being showcased at #VARN2023 So proud to be part of this program of work led by @DanchinMargie @JessicaJKaufman @BelleOvermars from @MCRI_for_kids with input from @JulieLeask @JaneFrawley and many others! (1/2)

Day 3 of the Vaccine Champions program in Soc Trang 🇻🇳 with recently trained provincial HCWs already running their own sessions training diverse groups of vaccine champions to advocate for vaccines, answer questions and address misinfo in their communes 👏⁦@UNICEF_vietnam⁩

Day 2 of the Vaccine Champions program in Soc Tran, Vietnam - kicking off with a role play addressing vaccine concerns in groups of 3 👇🇻🇳 ⁦@dfat⁩ ⁦⁦@Woolcockmedical⁩ ⁦@UNICEF⁩ ⁦@MCRI_for_kids⁩ ⁦@NCIRS⁩

There’s no báhn mì better than the “truth báhn mì” - the Vaccine Champions Program in Viet Nam’s take on the truth sandwich. Actually, maybe just this one. @JessicaJKaufman @DanchinMargie

Kicking off the Vaccine Champions Program in Soc Tran, Vietnam today with ⁦@UNICEF_vietnam⁩ ⁦@Woolcockmedical⁩ 🇻🇳 supported by Aust Regional Immunisation Alliance, ⁦@MCRI_for_kids⁩ ⁦@dfat⁩ ⁦@NCIRS⁩ ⁦@JessicaJKaufman⁩ ⁦@BelleOvermars⁩ 👇