title: Displaced populations due to humanitarian emergencies and its impact on global eradication and elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases.
abstract: Populations affected by humanitarian emergencies may require unique strategies to ensure access to life-saving vaccines and attain sufficiently high population immunity to interrupt virus circulation. Vaccination strategies among displaced populations should not be an afterthought and must be part of the vaccine-preventable disease eradication and elimination initiatives from the start.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Response and Recovery Branch; Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA.
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Epidemiology; Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.affiliation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Allen Gidraf Kahindo
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Maina
authors.affiliation: Emergency Response and Recovery Branch; Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA.
authors.forename: Muireann
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brennan
keywords: Civil conflicts; Disease eradication; Displacement; Humanitarian emergency; Immunizations; Internally displaced persons; Measles; Outbreaks; Poliomyelitis; Refugees; Rubella; Vaccines