Details - Public Health Image Library(PHIL)

ID#:

20048

Caption:

Created on December 3, 2012, this photograph was captured by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Communication Specialist, Alan Janssen, MSPH, while he was in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reviewing the methods, and implementation of the regions measles and polio vaccination programs. Here, we see a man known as a social mobilizer, whose job it was to get the word out to the general public, as to the benefits of childhood vaccinations, and to allay parental fears they might have towards Western medicine. In this view, he was displaying a map that he and his colleagues had created, which helped them go house to house, raising vaccine awareness, and demand.