Polio Eradication: Annotated Bibliography

This instructor’s note supports a teaching pack on polio eradication, with a focus on the health care system challenges of eradicating an infectious and debilitating disease in conflict settings. After reading a four-part National Geographic series about polio eradication efforts in Pakistan and Syria, students participate in one or both of two lessons, “Polio Risk in a Messy World” and “Eradicating Polio in Conflict Settings,” to compare and contrast the diverse factors contributing to polio…

This is the first of two lesson plans on polio eradication in conflict settings, part of a teaching pack on polio vaccination and disease outbreaks in Pakistan and Syria during the past decade. The lessons are based on a National Geographic series about threats that vaccinators face in civil and political crisis settings. In this lesson students read about vaccination challenges in Pakistan and learn to apply a conceptual framework for global health to invite…

This is the second of two lesson plans on polio eradication in conflict settings, part of a teaching pack on polio vaccination and disease outbreaks in Pakistan and Syria during the past decade. The lessons are based on a National Geographic series about threats that vaccinators face in civil and political crisis settings. In this lesson, students read articles on Pakistan and Syria, and consider the challenges, resilience, and responses of polio vaccinators threatened with…