- Ensure smooth introduction of the rotavirus vaccine; - Assist with planning for program sustainability; - Promote further strengthening of existing immunization programs.

- Understand characteristics of rotavirus; - Identify who is at risk for rotavirus; - Describe how rotavirus spreads; - Recognize different patterns of disease transmission; - Recognize the importance of rotavirus as a public health problem;

- Describe practical methods for collecting surveillance data; - Understand how surveillance data guide decisions related to rotavirus vaccine introduction.

- Recognize the main types of rotavirus vaccines; - Understand the history of rotavirus vaccines and intussusception; - Estimate the potential impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction in your country.

- Understand the different methods for evaluating the economics of health interventions, such as introducing a new vaccine; - Understand how to use a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to measure the costs and benefits of introducing a rotavirus vaccine; - Identify the main drivers of CEA for a rotavirus vaccine; - Conduct a cost analysis for introducing a rotavirus vaccine.

- Define the rationale for advocacy on rotavirus vaccines; - Prepare tools for spreading advocacy messages; - Identify different audiences for outreach; - Plan for crisis communications.

- Monitor the reach of the rotavirus immunization program through recording immunization coverage. - Evaluate the impact of the rotavirus immunization program through monitoring disease incidence.

Through this course, the Gender, Ethnicity and Health Office of PAHO/WHO seeks to promote an analysis of the health situation and access to services with proper attention given to differences in health indicators that reveal unfavorable circumstances faced by indigenous people, Afro-descendants, Romani people and migrants. Adopting an ethnic approach will create opportunities to redesign health program, plans and policies, with the aim to overcome unjust social conditions that affect those people within a framework that promote: social equity, social participation and respect for human rights.

This module you will learn how to:
understand ethnicity as a social health determinant; identify the mechanisms of exclusion; identify and locate indigenous people afro-descendants, Romani people, migrants on the American continent; identify poverty and health disparities affecting these populations in the region.

This module you will learn how to:
identify the tools to be considered when making a health analysis with an ethnic approach; distinguish the basic methodological tools use to carry out an appropriate health analysis with an ethnic approach; value the importance of the health analysis with an ethnic approach in health.