Implementing a global health programme: Smallpox and Nepal by Susan Heydon

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Monday Nov 11, 2024

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Book Description

Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised

as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global

vaccination programme within nation states. How this was achieved remains

relevant and topical for responding to today's global communicable disease

challenges. The small and poor Himalayan kingdom of Nepal faced enormous

geographical and infrastructure challenges if it was going to succeed in a

nationwide vaccination programme. This book acknowledges the key role of the

WHO but disrupts the top-down, centre-led standard narrative. Against a

background of widespread internal political and social change, Nepal's

programme was expanded, effectively decentralised and a vaccination strategy introduced that aligned with people's beliefs. Few foreign personnel were involved.

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