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AN INSIGHT INTO VACCINES WITH DR DRAGOSLAV POPOVIC by Bojana Bogojevic
and post-graduate degree in Social Policy and Governance from University of Maastricht. Dragoslav’s job has taken place in Central and Eastern Europe, Central and South-East Asia and Africa. His recent collaborations include UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, WB, GAVI Alliance and IPSOS. He was a member of the working group developing Decade of Vaccines Collaboration and Global Immunization and Vaccines Action Plan. Let’s start with vaccines. Vaccines seems more relevant today than ever before? Vaccination, is pandemic Ower? While race for vaccination and battle against COVID19 is ongoing, and humanity finally has a weapon of hope to fight with Sars - Cov 2 I had extraordinary opportunity to talk with Dr Dragoslav Popović, a worldwide known health expert. I am truly thankful because it isn’t easy to arrange meeting while his schedule is overbooked with invitations from tv stations, portals, newspapers and magazines. For EYS international readers I brought our conversation in hope Dr Popović would give to us all precious answers and advice. Dragoslav Popovic has three decades of experience in public health. His worked has focused on health systems reforms, including immunizations, private and public partnership, management and communication. Dragoslav has completed his Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) at University of Medicine, Sarajevo; Master of Public Health (MPH) at University in Belgrade 30 | eYs Magazine, Autumn 2021
True. Just three months back, the first global Decade of Vaccines 2010-2020 concluded, and we entered 2021 that will be global year of vaccination, and hopefully, a year of the resolution of current COVID-19 pandemic. Many people within the global public health and scientific community were skeptical that scientists will be able to develop effective and safe vaccine against SARS-Cov-2 virus, which caused this pandemic, but we are today witnessing that highly efficient and safe vaccines are in use in mass vaccination in many countries and more and more vaccines are in the research or manufacturing pipeline and it will be soon widely available. This is enormous success of global community and big hope that pandemic will be over soon. But it is vaccines that caused what some people describe as the global vaccine wars? There is also new term – the vaccine nationalism that has been used as of recently? I think the war is by far too strong term to use, but vaccines
