Community engagement to increase vaccine uptake: Quasi-experimental evidence from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Mujahid Abdullah; Taimoor Ahmad; Twangar Kazmi; Faisal Sultan; Sabeen Afzal; Rana Muhammad Safdar; Adnan Ahmad Khan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0274718

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Community engagement to increase vaccine uptake: Quasi-experimental evidence from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Mujahid Abdullah,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2923-0526

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Taimoor Ahmad,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1648-2353

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Twangar Kazmi,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5430-3440

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Faisal Sultan,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan
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Sabeen Afzal,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Rana Muhammad Safdar,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Adnan Ahmad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: adnan@resdev.org

Affiliations Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, Islamabad, Pakistan, Research and Development Solutions, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3816-3943

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Community engagement to increase vaccine uptake: Quasi-experimental evidence from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Mujahid Abdullah,
Taimoor Ahmad,
Twangar Kazmi,
Faisal Sultan,
Sabeen Afzal,
Rana Muhammad Safdar,
Adnan Ahmad Khan

Published: December 1, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274718

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