Missing You - Suleman Malik, RIP

Sad news from Nuzhat Shahzadi



Suleman passed away in January, 2024. A friend from Unicef India informed me about the news. I photographed this photo from his facebook post. He was a communication officer in Unicef Islamabad and later became an international.

I think I first met him in 2002- he took me to Quetta to visit a unicef sponsored project to promote girls’ education. I wrote a column about that mission. I don’t know much about how his career developed after I left Rosa. Perhaps someone who knows him well could elaborate? otherwise I can write a few lines on him.many thanks and warm wishes,

thanks
Nuzhat

From Academia.edu

"Suleman Malik is a senior behaviour and social change practitioner. He led C4D teams in Pakistan, Malawi, Kenya and Myanmar. Over last 21 years, Suleman supported development of several innovative communication initiatives that live on to this day, including gender equity programming in Pakistan, a holistic communication strategy for Child Survival and Development in East Africa, and a children-led edu-tainment initiative in Kenya to promote hand-washing, which has since been replicated in many countries."

Papers

Interpersonal and community influences affecting childhood vaccination decision-making among Nigerian caregivers: Perceptions among frontline workers in Nigeria
Journal of Child Health Care, 2019
Although routine immunization has contributed to a substantial reduction in mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases globally, vaccine-preventable diseases are attributable for 22% of childhood deaths in Nigeria. Individual and structural level factors that influence vaccination uptake in Nigeria have been well documented. However, there is limited information about the role of interpersonal and community level factors. Frontline workers play a crucial role in delivering life-saving vaccines in Nigeria, as they are tasked with ensuring that all children are vaccinated, within the health system as well as traveling to underserved areas, where health systems are not able to reach. This qualitative study conducted focus groups to examine frontline workers’ perceptions of influences affecting caregivers’ vaccine-related decision-making. Community- and facility-based frontline workers ( n = 47) identified village and community chiefs, as well as religious leaders as influential within...
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Communications, Immunization, and Polio Vaccines: Lessons From a Global Perspective on Generating Political Will, Informing Decision-Making and Planning, and Engaging Local Support
The Journal of infectious diseases, 2017
The requirements under objective 2 of the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018-to introduce at least 1 dose of inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV); withdraw oral poliomyelitis vaccine (OPV), starting with the type 2 component; and strengthen routine immunization programs-set an ambitious series of targets for countries. Effective implementation of IPV introduction and the switch from trivalent OPV (containing types 1, 2, and 3 poliovirus) to bivalent OPV (containing types 1 and 3 poliovirus) called for intense global communications and coordination on an unprecedented scale from 2014 to 2016, involving global public health technical agencies and donors, vaccine manufacturers, World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund regional offices, and national governments. At the outset, the new program requirements were perceived as challenging to communicate, difficult to understand, unrealistic in terms of timelines, and potentially infeasible for ...
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