(This video tutorial shows the most important step of onboarding - how to join the course website. )

The following onboarding instructions should only be used by selected participants who received their Letter of Acceptance to participate in the Boost Scholar Level 1 certification in Adaptive Leadership for immunization.

There are four steps required to “onboard” (prepare) for the course.

• You are required to complete these steps before Orientation Week starts on 1 June 2020.
• We estimate that these steps typically require less than 30 minutes to complete.

1. Discover the five web services that you will use in this course

In this course, we will be using five web services as tools to support learning:

1. Learning.foundation is the course website where you can find everything you need to complete the course. You can work in it at any time, from anywhere. See Step 2 below.
2. Peergrade is the platform to submit your work and peer review others’ work in this course. The code and ins
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GENEVA, 2 August 2019 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) – Obed Nuobe has been a Health Information Officer in the Suaman District, Ghana, since 2015. In July 2019, he completed the “Reducing Inequities and Improving Coverage” Scholar course.

He is one of more than 600 Alumni of the WHO Scholar programme from 53 countries who joined the Impact Accelerator last month, signing a Pledge to “work with others to transform projects led by Scholars into action and results that will improve immunization outcomes.”

“When I analysed the data in our District, I saw that only 51.7% of pregnant women received the Td2 + vaccines in 2018. Our target was 80% – and we were a long way from meeting it.”

“Our expected pregnancy rate shows that we should be vaccinating about 93 women per month to meet the annual target. We averaged 47. Yet 95% of pregnant women who visit our health facilities are checked for HB and tested for HIV. So there was a gap in the system somewhere.”

“The District...