by Heidi Lasher, consultant, and Kathleen Tiffay, PATH
Much of the knowledge generated by project Optimize and its partners is being shared in reports and presentations published on the PATH and Word Health Organization (WHO) websites. However, it is not always easy to reach national-level audiences in this way. This has prompted Optimize to create an interactive “traveling exhibit” to share evidence of potential solutions that are being developed and tested in different countries around the world.
The “Supply Systems for Today and Tomorrow” traveling exhibit was piloted at the TechNet Consultation in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2013 and was also facilitated at two EPI managers’ meetings in Africa in March.
The exhibit currently includes four stations, with plans to develop two additional stations by June. These stations are:
1. Preventing freezing in vaccine coolers. This station shows live temperature readouts of four vaccine carriers: the first filled with frozen ice packs, a second filled with conditioned ice packs, a third filled with cool water packs, and a fourth left unfilled to represent a controlled temperature chain. It shows how temperature conditions are maintained over time and elaborates on the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
2. Vaccine presentation game and hippo poster. This station helps participants understand the difference between vaccine price and cost per dose delivered. The game highlights costs considerations for nine different presentations of pentavalent vaccine at each level of the supply chain.
Hippo poster for the vaccine presentation game. Photo: RRD Design.
3. Mock immunization session. This station allows participants to prepare and deliver several different vaccine presentations. It reiterates the message that not all vaccine presentations are alike when it comes to training and human factors.
4. Information systems overview. This station includes a live demonstration of two software systems supported by project Optimize: a stock management system used in South Sudan and an immunization registry system used in Albania. These demonstrations help countries get a sense of what is possible and provide information on how to embark on their own information system projects.
5. Temperature monitoring technologies. This station shows WHO performance, quality and safety prequalified temperature monitoring devices and how they are used.
6. Solar refrigeration (to be developed). With many countries now purchasing solar refrigerators for health posts with little or no electricity, there is a need for more information on these new technologies and why they are superior to gas/kerosene models. This exhibit will focus on what it takes to build a successful solar refrigeration program.
7. Supply system integration (to be developed). This station will examine the many ways in which integration can take place and proposes a set of questions that should be considered before embarking on an integration project.
The purpose of the exhibit is to actively engage and involve participants in the discoveries and unanswered questions relating to vaccine supply and logistics systems. We hope the exhibit will provoke discussion, new ways of thinking, and new solutions to old (and new) challenges.
Click to see our Flickr slideshow about the exhibit.
In April, the exhibit is traveling to the World Health Organization for World Immunization Week in Geneva and then to a logisticians training event in Harare, Zimbabwe. To inquire about bringing the exhibit and facilitators to a relevant meeting or event, please contact Kathleen Tiffay ([email protected]).
The exhibit currently includes four stations, with plans to develop two additional stations by June. These stations are:
1. Preventing freezing in vaccine coolers. This station shows live temperature readouts of four vaccine carriers: the first filled with frozen ice packs, a second filled with conditioned ice packs, a third filled with cool water packs, and a fourth left unfilled to represent a controlled temperature chain. It shows how temperature conditions are maintained over time and elaborates on the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
2. Vaccine presentation game and hippo poster. This station helps participants understand the difference between vaccine price and cost per dose delivered. The game highlights costs considerations for nine different presentations of pentavalent vaccine at each level of the supply chain.
Hippo poster for the vaccine presentation game. Photo: RRD Design.
3. Mock immunization session. This station allows participants to prepare and deliver several different vaccine presentations. It reiterates the message that not all vaccine presentations are alike when it comes to training and human factors.
4. Information systems overview. This station includes a live demonstration of two software systems supported by project Optimize: a stock management system used in South Sudan and an immunization registry system used in Albania. These demonstrations help countries get a sense of what is possible and provide information on how to embark on their own information system projects.
5. Temperature monitoring technologies. This station shows WHO performance, quality and safety prequalified temperature monitoring devices and how they are used.
6. Solar refrigeration (to be developed). With many countries now purchasing solar refrigerators for health posts with little or no electricity, there is a need for more information on these new technologies and why they are superior to gas/kerosene models. This exhibit will focus on what it takes to build a successful solar refrigeration program.
7. Supply system integration (to be developed). This station will examine the many ways in which integration can take place and proposes a set of questions that should be considered before embarking on an integration project.
The purpose of the exhibit is to actively engage and involve participants in the discoveries and unanswered questions relating to vaccine supply and logistics systems. We hope the exhibit will provoke discussion, new ways of thinking, and new solutions to old (and new) challenges.
Click to see our Flickr slideshow about the exhibit.
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