Program duration: 22/05/2010 - 21/05/2013
Promote Vaccinations among Migrant Populations in Europe – PROMOVAX
European Commission: Public Health Program 2008- 2013
PROMOVAX is a 3-year project funded by the DG SANCO Public Health Program 2008–2013.
PROMOVAX’s general objective is to promote immunizations among migrant populations in Europe, thus contributing to the elimination of vaccine preventable diseases in the region and reducing social inequality in populations' health. This project aims to complement EU policies on reaching hard-to-reach populations by adding to the knowledge of barriers among migrants concerning immunizations, developing immunization educational material for both health professionals and migrants and by developing recommendations for policy-makers and stakeholders.
More specifically, PROMOVAX aims to:
– Identify and record the immunization needs of migrant populations.
– Evaluate migrants’ access to immunization in the EU countries.
– Analyze the legislative context regarding migrant immunizations in the participating countries.
– Identify and exchange best practices on immunization health promotion among migrant populations.
– Enhance health care professionals’ knowledge on immunization needs of migrants and raise cultural sensitivity among health care professionals providing for migrants.
– Improve migrants’ understanding and acceptance of immunizations and facilitate their access to immunizations.
The PROMOVAX consortium consisted of 11 associates partners from 8 countries and 12 collaborating partners from 11 countries.
Contact information
Eleni Patrozou, MD, Project coordinator: e.patrozou@prolepsis.gr
Dina Zota, PhD Candidte,Β Researcher: d.zota@prolepsis.gr
Services: Preventive Medicine
Project partners
Main Partner:
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Prolepsis, Greece
Associated Partners:
Technische UniversitΓt Dresden, Germany
UniversitΓ degli Studi di Sassari, Italy
The SINTEF Foundation, Norway
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland
University of Zagreb, Medical School, Croatia
RUBSI Research Unit in Behaviour and Social Issues, Cyprus
University of PΓcs, Hungary
UniversitΓ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Istituto Superiore di SanitΓ , Italy
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Collaborating Partners:
Public Health Institute, Albania
Baskent University, Turkey
Hospital de Sabadell. Consorci Hospitalari Parc TaulΓ. Universitat AutΓ²noma de Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Occupational Health, Serbia
WHO/Europe Occupational Health, Bonn, Germany
WHO/Europe Communicable Disease Units, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA
International Organization for Migration (IOM), Migration Health Division (MHD), Brussels, Belgium
Institute of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Greece
National School of health. Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden
National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD), Bulgaria
Relative links
http://www.promovax.eu/
