VaxSocial Learning Seminar: Bridging Online and Offline Engagement
October 2025
This VaxSocial Learning Seminar explored how grantees are integrating online and offline strategies to strengthen vaccine demand and community trust. Building on early insights from across the portfolio, the session examined how digital campaigns can connect more directly to on-the-ground health systems — addressing the “conversion gap” between online engagement and offline action.
https://www.vaxsocial.com/resource/vaxsocial-learning-seminar-2
Vaccine Confidence Fund II Impact Report
September 2025
This report presents lessons and insights from our research into using social media to drive vaccine confidence. These important findings continue to inform how social media and digital tools can drive offline health action for immunization.
https://vaccineconfidencefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/VCF-II-ImpactReport_Sept2025-1.pdf
VaxSocial Inception Report
April 2025
This inception report outlines the planned monitoring and evaluation approach for the VaxSocial Program. It provides a global overview of how VaxSocial activities are being implemented and how their impact will be assessed.
https://www.vaxsocial.com/resource/vaxsocial-inception-report
Generative AI for Health in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
February 2025
In partnership with Stanford Center for Digital Health and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in Behavioural Sciences, we commissioned a report to understand how Generative AI (GenAI) is being harnessed in health care contexts in LMICs. This report provides practical recommendations for funders, implementers, and policymakers working to harness GenAI to strengthen health systems and advance equity.
https://cdh.stanford.edu/research-portfolio/generative-ai-health-low-middle-income-countries
Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy with Social and Behavior Change Communication Strategies on Social Media
December 2024
AHO and the World Bank’s Mind, Behavior, and Development (eMBeD) Unit developed a global research program that aimed to diagnose barriers to vaccine uptake and identify effective behaviorally informed communications while introducing innovative approaches such as chatbot functionality and fostering partnerships with the private sector. This report showcases the potential of combining social media and behavioral science to address vaccine hesitancy and promote public health.
Selection of VaxSocial Initiative Funding Recipients
April 2024
Global Impact, as fiscal sponsor for the VaxSocial Initiative, announced the selection of seven organizations receiving funding through VaxSocial, a $12 million initiative focused on demonstrating how social media can help build vaccine confidence.
Global Impact, on Behalf of the Advancing Health Online Initiative (AHO), Announces Collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance at the Concordia Annual Summit
September 2023
Alongside the 78th United Nations General Assembly, Global Impact as fiscal sponsor for the Advancing Health Online Initiative (AHO), announced an innovative collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, centered around VaxSocial, an initiative supporting country-driven projects that leverage social media and behavioral science to build confidence around routine immunizations.
Vaccine Confidence Fund I Insight Report
August 2022
This initial report presents lessons and insights from our research into using social media to drive vaccine confidence. These important findings are a useful reference for future endeavors exploring how social media and digital tools can drive offline health action.
https://ahoinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/VCFI_ImpactReport_UpdatedLogo.pdf
