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Dear colleagues, I’ve created a repository of national immunization policies and SOPs for vaccine management at facility level. This comes from what is available online, combined with publications that have been shared with me.
https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/programme-management/sops
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Four years into its strategic plan, the Measles & Rubella Partnership's Midterm Review reveals that while progress has been made, countries and global institutions must take urgent, collective action to reach elimination targets by 2030.
At the end of 2024, 83 countries had eliminated measles a...
Colleagues,
WHO has released the Full Value of Improved Influenza Vaccines Assessment (FVIVA), looking at the potential health, economic and policy impacts of next-generation influenza vaccines that offer broader and longer-lasting protection than current seasonal products.
Some key takeaways that...
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Excited to share that my book chapter has just been published!
Approximately 1.9 billion people live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, yet vaccine design and evaluation continue to assume stable delivery conditions.
This chapter challenges that paradigm.
-Drawing on evidence from vaccine...
Dear Colleagues,
Health professionals are increasingly stepping into leadership roles—often in complex systems with limited resources and high expectations. Yet structured opportunities to reflect on leadership practice remain rare.
Over the past year, I’ve facilitated the Leadership Masterclass w...
Join our Webinar on Immunization microplanning with WorldPop data in DHIS2 / Avec l'interprétation simultanée en français
Microplanning for immunization is an approach that helps health workers reach every community with immunization services by identifying priority communities and potential barr...
A new JSI article on Gavi's VaccinesWork platform synthesizes findings from the Zero-Dose Learning Hub across Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda, and makes a compelling case that the field's default approaches to reaching zero-dose children are incomplete without corresponding attention to subdis...
The SAGE meeting highlights have been published in form of a SAGE Digest Webinar following the March meeting (9-12).
Click here to watch the video summary:
The discussion covered:
Global and Regional Reports
Immunization Agenda 2030
COVID-19
Typhoid
Polio...
The Varo Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Varo 2.0, available now on the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intven.varo).
Varo 2.0 is a complete, ground-up rebuild of the Varo app. The new application infrastructure is cleaner, built on a more susta...
Link to join the webinar on 24 March
Dear TechNet Colleagues,
We would be very glad to welcome you to our next VPPN onboarding webinar, that will take place on Tuesday, 24 March, at 11am GMT+1.
Join us on 24 March to meet and chat with peers from around the world and us, the team behind t...
GiveWell is looking to identify programs that increase the uptake of routine childhood immunizations by bringing vaccination services closer to communities through targeted outreach sessions or mobile vaccination. We think these programs have the potential to be highly cost-effective and scalable an...
Dear Colleaques,
Happy to share the latest edition of ImmunizationForResilienceNewsletter, titled:
"Cholera 2026: When The System Sees It Coming But Cannot Move - The Scenario Nobody Talks About"
This edition looks at a reality many teams face in 2026: community-based surveillance can be function...
Learning agenda on hepatitis B birth dose vaccine delivery in Africa
Insights and recommendations to improve timely administration
Wednesday 4 March at 16:00–17:30 EAT | 14:00–15:30 CET | 8:00–9:30 EST
Chronic hepatitis B affects 254 million people globally, with the highest burden in low‑ and m...
Dear Colleagues,
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) of the World Health Organization is seeking qualified experts to serve on a SAGE Working Group on yellow fever vaccination yellow fever SAGE Working Group on yello...
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to share a new op-ed, co-authored by Last Mile Health and VillageReach, that highlights how community health workers (CHWs) are driving meaningful improvements in vaccine access across Africa — especially for zero-dose and under-immunized children.
The piece, published on ...
What does it actually cost to reach every zero-dose child? Immunization programs can face challenges in planning and budgeting if they lack rigorous, bottom-up costing data for targeted interventions, particularly those designed to reach missed and under-immunized children.
To help address this gap...
Happy 2026,
Wanted to share this opportunity with you.
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Artificial Intelligence tools are penetrating the Supply Chain Sector! Are you ready to embrace AI in an effective way? Routine work of many health supply chain professionals includes analysing data, ...
Hi everyone,
I’m looking to learn more about how temperature-sensitive medicines and vaccines are monitored during delivery, particularly in areas of the world that have limited connectivity/unreliable power. I was thinking about rural communities or for example transporting typhoid vaccines in are...
Asking whether an intervention worked is not enough. Immunization programs also need to understand how and why change occurred, especially when reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children in complex settings.
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub’s new Theory-Based Evaluation Toolkit supports governments ...
Dear Colleaques,
Happy to share with you the latest edition of my newsletter titled "POLIO 2026 - Second eradication target, and the endgame is getting more expensive, not less."
Pakistan and Afghanistan remain a single transmission corridor for wild poliovirus type 1. Environmental detect...
Switching from sepaetae pentavalent +IPV to Hexavalent vaccine will reduce the logistic, storage and nos of injection as well as price, so what is the purpose of doing cost analysis?...
Webinar.
Date & Time: Feb 18, 2026 02:00 PM in Luxembourg
Description
This webinar highlights how the Indigo Cold Chain Vaccine Carrier is expanding immunization access to zero-dose children. The first presentation, led by Global South Health Ventures, introduc...
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I am working at the HISP Centre at the University of Oslo as LMIS technical advisor. We are developing a web/mobile app which will allow downloading temperature and performance data from any EMS compliant cold chain appliance through the USB port, upload, store, share and visualise in DHIS...
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