The COVID-19 pandemic has unearthed an uncomfortable structural and societal ageism affecting the human rights of millions of people around the world. From hospital triaging guidelines to chronic understaffing of long-term care facilities, national health systems did not take the necessary steps to ensure that vulnerable people had access to life-saving health services, regardless of age or socioeconomic background. Now is a critical time to collectively inform post-pandemic policies needed to recover and rebuild national health systems and consider investment strategies that prevent resurgence of infectious diseases and associated strain on health system capacity. In the final session of a four-part series, Dr Michael Moore and Dr Monika Arora provide their perspectives on essential post pandemic multisectoral actions to keep on the agenda the critical importance of immunisation for older people and those with noncommunicable diseases.
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