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What can public sector vaccine supply chains learn from private sector supply chains like Coca-Cola?
Thank you Dr Robert Steinglass for directing our attention here. This contribution has been cross-posted from the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) with thanks. Those of you interested in subscribing to the discussions on this forum, please click here: http://knowledge-...
Human Resource Capacity Development in Public Health SCM: Assessment Guide & Tool
Effective public health supply chains require motivated and skilled staff with competency in various essential logistics functions. In many countries, a lack of trained staff is a frequent cause of supply chain system breakdown and poor performance. In an effort to help public health supply chain ma...
Two surveys: Vaccine investment and vaccine supply chain
Joanie Robertson Senior Manager, Vaccine Supply Chain, GAVI Alliance wants your views on vaccine investment strategies and the vaccine supply chain. The GAVI Alliance is currently developing two strategies, and your views are important for both. The Vaccine Investment Strategy and the Supply Chain...
GSK & Save the Children: $1M healthcare innovation award to fight child mortality
GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children have launched a fund totalling $1,000,000 to reward organisations practicing innovative approaches for reducing under-5 child mortality. The organisation judged to combat child mortality in the most innovative and effective way will be eligible for an award of u...
Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC): Report (2013)
IPAC-2013Aprilreport-FINAL.pdf
This report covers the highlights of the meeting held in April 2013 in Geneva.
The various sessions covered the following topics:
Session I. Framework of the Unvaccinated The presentation covered the components of the Tools for Identifying Root Causes of C...
Two new competitions: (i) Design a health card; (ii) Make a video to enhance vaccination awareness
Records for Life Contest
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching an international contest to redesign the child health record. Winners of the contest - as determined by judges Melinda Gates, Anthony Lake, Walt Orenstein, Margaret Chan, and Robert Fabricant - will receive up to US $50,00...
A new tool to tailor immunization programmes launched
Current immunization coverage rates in the WHO European Region are insufficient to ensure herd immunity and stop the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases. In some countries, rates have now fallen well below the WHO-recommended threshold (95%). Across the Region, up to 1 million infants born each y...
The imperative for stronger vaccine supply and logistics systems
With the launch of a new Decade of Vaccines (DoV) as outlined in the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012, the world will be embarking on ambitious strategies to introduce the next generation of new vaccines and raise vaccination coverage to desired levels,...
Scientific declaration on polio eradication
Cross-posted from www.childsurvival.net with thanks!
I wanted to let you know about an exciting new polio initiative announced last week. In a display of support for the new Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, more than 400 scientists and technical experts from 80 countries issued the Scient...
Special session on vaccines at MSF conference
Thank you Dr Robert Steinglass for sharing these presentations and films with the forum.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Global Health Program conducted a conference titled "Lives in the...
Immunization Summary: New IPAD/IPHONE application (version 1.0) now available on the app. store
Many thanks to Diana Chang Blanc for sharing this information with the readers!
The Immunization Summary is an app for visualizing (tables, graphs, maps) data on policies, activities and impact of national immunization systems. The IPAD/IPHONE app can now be downloaded directly from the iTunes ap...
Q&A - Economic analyses for vaccine introduction decisions in low- and middle- income countries
Introduction
Raymond Hutubessy is a senior health economist affiliated to the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) Department of the World Health Organization (WHO), and is the executive secretary of the WHO Immunization and Vaccines related Implementation Research Advisory Committee (IVI...
“Temperature Stability of Vaccines” with updated bubble graphics
WHO and PATH have jointly updated the popular Temperature Stability of Vaccines slides that were originally produced by Dr. Julie Milstien for the TechNet21 2006 consultation. This updated version includes vaccines that have become available since the original slide set was created. The slides graph...
Increasing interoperability of data for social good: Winner to receive $100,000 grant
Sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Partnership with Liquidnet for Good
Rewarding Innovation: Each Winner to Receive $100,000 Grant
The social sector is full of passion, intuition, deep experience, and unwavering commitment. Increasingly, social change agents from funders t...
The future of the polio eradication campaign
This blog by Judith Kaufmann has been cross-posted from the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks.
The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, ...
Hans Rosling on GAVI's targeted fight against poverty and disease
Cross-posted from the GAVI Alliance website with thanks!
Professor Hans Rosling is a doctor and a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. At the GAVI Partners' Forum, he showed how GAVI’s mission to increase access to immunisation fits into a new way of looking at...
Measles updates
Many thanks to Robert Davis for this lead!
Recent Technical Updates
POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION, UGANDA 2006-2009
Full text, with tables and figures, is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204633/pdf/10-0753_finalD.pdf
SINGLE ENDEMIC GENOTYPE OF MEAS...
UNEP mercury treaty and thiomersal: update and three commentaries
Cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum with many thanks.
As you may know, a United Nations Environment Programme treaty is currently being negotiated on mercury. A number of organizations have been working to ensure that the instrument does not restrict access to the vaccine preservative, thiomersa...
Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting report
The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), established in 2010, supports and advises the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), with the review and/or formulation of immunization practices, operational standards, tools and technologies to strengthen an...
ARISE project: notes from the field
Dear colleagues,
With the GAVI Partners' Forum and Africa Regional Conference on Immunization taking place in Dar Es Salaam in the coming two weeks, and with the recent endorsement of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, immunization is receiving a great deal of attention. Over the past three years, t...