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Folake Kio-Olayinka
Senior Technical Immunization Officer, John Snow Inc. Immunization Center
Folake Kio-Olayinka is a senior technical immunization officer at John Snow Inc. Immunization Center. She has extensive experience with polio from her time as a senior immunization advisor with COMPASS (Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector) and its parent organization, USAID Nigeria, from 2001 to 2007. Kio-Olayinka finds it essential to examine the concept of partnership and to expand on it for successful eradication of polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases. During her time as a maternal and child health program manager with USAID Nigeria, she served as a member of the WHO Immunization Practice Advisory Committee (IPAC). She is an Aspen Institute New Voices fellow.
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Polio is likely to be wiped off the planet in the next two years, a huge triumph for global health. Seventy-four cases of polio were reported in 2015, in contrast to 350,000 w...