Roma Solomon, MBBS
Roma Solomon is a medical doctor by profession with more than 40 years of experience of working in community health programs in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. She has worked both at grassroots as well as managerial levels for various international organizations. Since 1999, Roma has directed the secretariat of an non-governmental organization consortium (CORE Group Polio Project India) that works to eradicate polio and improve routine immunization in high-risk states of India. Bringing in civil society perspectives in demand generation for immunization, she also represented it as the chair of the Gavi Civil Society Organization (CSO) Steering Committee and member of the Oversight Advisory Group that monitors and evaluates the Gavi CSO platform project. She has been the CSO representative on the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) for two years and a member of the Transition Independent Monitoring Board for polio at the global level.
Resources:
VARN2023 Registration
Follow the activities of the VARN2023 conference from June 13-15, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Community-led Strategies to Aid Vaccine Acceptance: Nine Case Studies from Around the World
These case-study reports inform action and investment around the globe that seek to build more vaccine confident communities.
Video Narrative Project
Sabin’s Social and Behavioral Research Grant Partners, over the course of a year, explored the local barriers and enablers of vaccination acceptance,
Operationalizing of the WHO BeSD Framework
Get to Know Three of Our 2023-2024 Social and Behavioral Research Grant Partners.