Padraic Murphy's research while affiliated with UNICEF and other places

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Estimates of national immunization coverage are crucial for guiding policy and decision-making in national immunization programs and setting the global immunization agenda. WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage (WUENIC) are produced annually for various vaccine-dose combinations and all WHO Member States using information from...
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In 2020, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Immunization Agenda 2030, an ambitious global immunization strategy to reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases (1). This report updates a 2020 report (2) with global, regional,* and national vaccination coverage estimates and trends through 2021. Global estimates of coverage w...
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Endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2020, the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) strives to reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases across the life course (1). This report, which updates a previous report (2), presents global, regional,* and national vaccination coverage estimates and trends as of 2020. Changes are desc...
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Background : The objective of the study was to assess compliance of the WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage (WUENIC) against the 18 criteria of the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER) that define and promote good practice in reporting of global health estimates. Methods : We conducted a...

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... The study was conducted during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic when many health services, including immunization, were interrupted, and this could have lowered immunization rates. 26,27 However, previous studies also showed low immunization rates, and the rates of Tdap (or Td), PCV13, and PPSV23 immunization were higher in our study. [11][12][13]16 Moreover, most KT candidates have had kidney disease for several months to years providing a wider window of opportunity for immunization. ...
... Similarly, [21] presents a critical review of the bioinformatics methods and tools used to support vaccine development. Information about vaccinations can be found in several papers such as [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Aspects of the vaccine uptake have been treated in [34], while in [35], the authors analyze the problem of vaccine delivery. ...