Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...

Dear Colleagues This is to inform you that the, WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) call for application is currently open, the deadline for submitting the application is 8 May 2024. WHO is seeking for experienced and highly qualified experts to serve as members of the S...

Dear colleagues, All are welcome to join the Health Data Collaborative (HDC) facilitated event on DHIS2 COVID-19 packages (attached and summary below), presented by University of Oslo, with  opportunities for questions and discussion.   There will be two opportunities to join the webex c...

Dear measles and rubella vaccine delivery and implementation experts, WHO is soliciting your expertise on the potential need and use for microarray patches (MAPs) (otherwise known as microneedles or microneedle patches) to deliver measles and rubella vaccines (MR), particularly in the context of ex...

Dear Colleagues, The bus is ready to hit the road again! I am happy to announce the fothcoming award winning renown bus course "Pharmaceutical Secure Supply Chain Management on Wheels" is now acepting applications. For full details please refer to the attached Introduction document which has...

Dear all,   Please, find attached a short report on the above-mentioned training for 250 central and state level supply chain management officers in Nigeria (20 - 24 January 2020). Best, Modibo ---------------------------- Modibo Dicko, Consultant Supply & Solar System...

Please join us for a webinar on vaccine vial monitor (VVM)-based vaccine management, on the occasion of publishing of “The Book of VVM: Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow” by Umit Kartoglu. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, January 21st at 4pm CET. During the webinar, the presenters will discuss the...

WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA JOINT STATEMENT   Appropriate Storage and Management of Oxytocin – a Key Commodity for Maternal Health WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA have issued a joint statement regarding the management of oxytocin, a medicine essential to the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage as wel...

Dear Colleagues and partners I hope you’re well and that 2018 has got off to a great start!    I hope you don’t mind me reaching out to request your help is spreading the word about INFUSE within your networks. Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in Immunisation, or INFUSE for short, is an ac...

Happy New Year to all TechNet members! I trust that the holiday season was relaxing and peaceful for all. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued participation in the forum and other areas of the website. It’s been wonderful to hear so many different voices from around th...

Posting by: David W Brown, Brown Consulting Group International, LLC, North Carolina, USA Marta Gacic-Dobo, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland The WHO and UNICEF recommend that immunization programmes order and supply vaccines bundled with safe-injection equipment (e.g., diluents, aut...

Dear TechNet-21 Members, we invite you to follow a moderated discussion just getting started on the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL) listserve. You can join the IAHPL, follow the conversation, or sign up for emails here: https://knowledge-gateway.org/iaphl/ We hope yo...

Pleased to share with you the finalized report from theOctober 2015 Meeting of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), held in Geneva, Switzerland on October 14-15, 2015....

As you may know, immunization was on the agenda at the World Health Assembly in May. This year, PATH listened specifically for references to immunization supply chains and logistics. A few official statements mentioned supply chain, cold chain or logistics, but usually in a list of issues to be add...

Dear All, WHO EPELA authentic e-learning courses are accepting applications for 2015 courses. Great opportunity for a lifetime experience... http://http://epela.net/epela_web/index.php PHARMACEUTICAL COLD CHAIN MANAGEMENT 2 February – 24 April 2015 4 May – 24 July 2015 7 September - 27 ...

Call for abstracts 2nd PtD Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Conference Copenhagen Denmark 28-30 October 2014 Background: The People that Deliver (PtD) Initiative is a broad global coalition of organizations that strives to improve the health supply chain workforce in developing ...

by Raja Rao and Joseph Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation In November last year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in round nine of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Below, Raja R...

by Alan Hinman, Task Force for Global Health; Majeed Siddiqi, HealthNet TPO Afghanistan; and Amy Dietterich, IFRC While Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have long played critical roles in supporting immunization services at national and global levels, their role in the GAVI Alliance expanded j...

Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the self-explanatory call for nominations for members for the newly established Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC), as well as the more detailed Terms of Reference. We welcome nominations by third parties as well as self-nominations. The procedure...

The third meeting on New and Underutilised Vaccine Implementation organised by WHO was held in Montreux, Switzerland from 16-19 June. There were 120 participants. Nine workshops were held covering various aspects like Surveillance, Preferred vaccine presentations, Coordination Between National Regul...