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The COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invites Boost community members to an interactive panel where we will update the community on the program's status; host a live conversation featuring national and global immunization professionals; and facilitate a co-creation session to discuss the challenges, support and enablers needed to plan and prepare for fair COVID-19 vaccine delivery.
You will walk out of this panel with:
⚡️ Deeper understanding of the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project and how to engage with us
⚡️ Insight into countries concerns, needs, and desired support as they prepare for COVID-19 vaccine delivery
⚡️ Perspectives from national and global immunization professionals on current vaccine preparedness efforts, including insights into the work being done by the Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) unit at COVAX
⚡️ Key learnings and considerations on what is required for country vaccine delivery action planning
We hope you will join us to discuss this critical and timely topic! Please note that speakers will be announced next week.
Register here to join us: http://bit.ly/UCL_Empower_Webinar
Please register in advance, after which you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
DATE: 19 November 2020
TIME: 1:00 pm Greenwich Mean Time
Preparing the Supply Chain for New Vaccine Introduction is the fourth webinar in the Ensuring a Responsive Immunization Supply Chain Webinar Series. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, December 8th at 13:00 GMT. Cheick Coulibaly, JSI Immunization and Logistics Advisor based in Niger, will join JSI Senior Technical Advisors Greg Roche and Barbara Lamphere in presenting this webinar. The objectives of the webinar are to:
- Identify supply chain considerations for new vaccine introduction
- Describe supply chain lessons learned from rotavirus, PCV and IPV introduction in Niger
- Describe the purpose and components of WHO's COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction Readiness Assessment Tool (VIRAT)
Register here for this webinar:
https://jsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pQNTc4aBSG6WtrnOtaksjA
Over the past few months, Boost has highlighted stories of individuals and partners who have driven change through an intitative called Bright Spots. From immunization in conflict settings to community engagement to bottom-up approaches to planning, there is innovation occurring at all levels of the system. Boost members are invited to engage with story submitters through interactive webinars that showcase promising practices from selected Bright Spots stories. The content of these webinars will be most relevant for immunization program staff working at the national or sub-national level.
This fifth Bright Spots will feature Immunization Technical Officer Green Sadru from John Snow Inc (JSI) as he shares his story of addressing low vaccination coverage in the Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania through interacting with critical stakeholders, such as community religious leaders and health facility governing committees.
Over the course of the session, Sadru will share his process and challenges, lessons learned, successes to date and highlight some of his approaches that might be relevant to you in your own work.
Overview
Several thousands of health workers join the public health system in Low-and Middle-Income countries every year. Out of those, many get roped into public health supply chain without any context specific technical training, which is described as task shifting. Since, most of the public health supply chains in LMICs are still largely donor driven, the organisations find it difficult to develop competencies in those cadres to achieve efficiency in the workplace. There are several training courses on health supply chain available in the market today which are offered in classroom settings or online. However, most of those courses do not consider the contextual learning needs of the candidate or provide them with real-world competencies.
Currently, there is a push for health professionals to learn supply chain concepts through internationally accredited organisations like APICS, CIPS, CILT etc. However, most of us don’t ask the question of how do we apply the commercial sector concepts in public sector or whether the health professionals are equipped to handle those intensive courses? There is no question about the quality or relevance of the materials in those courses, but students must be fully equipped for the advanced learning on offer.
Moreover, all the professionally accredited courses or other health supply chain courses are mostly beyond the financial reach of most candidates in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A few who are able to participate, do that with high financial burden, or funded by their organisations. Hence, there remains a demand for a course which competes with the professionally accredited courses on quality of content and are offered in an affordable manner in making it accessible to everyone.
The Collective Learning Certificate Course: Supply Chain for Health combines the internationally accepted supply chain competencies with the public health context, to make it relevant and relatable for public health academics and professionals. It is the first course in the sector, where participants not only learn from the content, but also from their peers through several group and individual networking opportunities.
The course is designed using European Qualifications Framework (EQF: Level 5), and focusses on key competencies at tactical and operational level (from People that Deliver Competency Compendium for Health Supply Chain Management).
At the end of this course, Learners will be able to:
Who is this course for?
Public Health Professionals with up to 5 years of experience – Pharmacists, Doctors, Nurses, Biomedical Engineers, Frontline Health Workers, Management Staff working in supply chains or health programs.
Healthcare Academics – Graduate or Post graduate students of Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering who intend to learn about the public health supply chain
Access to the Course
The course begins on 16th November. You can enroll today to save your seat, there are only 50 seats for the first cohort.
Registration is easy, follow the link below, fill the details, make the payment, and you will receive course details. The course is priced at USD 80, you can receive early bird discount, if you register before 4th November.