Immune Patrol is an education package for 10–12-year-olds developed by WHO/Europe in collaboration with experts in immunology, vaccinology and education. It offers an interactive experience that helps students to understand how the immune system works, how vaccines prevent disease transmission and how to recognize misinformation online.

Content

The educational journey, presented as a training in the fictitious “Immune Patrol Academy”, is facilitated by an animated character named lieutenant Juliet and proceeds through 6 modules, with the help of videos, digital games, a mini-encyclopedia and practical exercises. In groups or individually, students progress through the modules on diseases and transmission, the immune system, vaccination, herd immunity, vaccine development and source criticism. Each module can be completed by the class in 45 to 90 minutes and the modules can be followed in any order. The teacher and students follow the class’s progress on a graphic platform where team avatars collect points for each completed task or game. Upon completion of all modules, students “graduate” from the Immune Patrol Academy and are ready to apply their newfound knowledge in real life.

Flexible and easy implementation

Immune Patrol was developed for seamless integration in school health curricula at the country level, but it is equally suitable for implementation in individual schools, cities or districts. Immune Patrol is readily accessible, offered free of charge and presented in a comprehensive, well-structured format. This ensures that teachers can start using it right away without any prior knowledge of immunization or vaccine-preventable diseases.

How to get started

Immune Patrol is available in 14 languages so far, in both an online version and a downloadable offline version. A step-by-step teacher’s manual, complete with learning goals for each module and supporting videos, is also available for download within the package.

Contact us

If you are interested in learning more about Immune Patrol and/or collaborating with WHO to implement the package in your country, please contact us at immune-patrol-support@who.int.