Over 50 new vaccine options have launched in less than a decade — an unprecedented opportunity for governments to optimise routine immunisation: ✅ higher coverage ✅ reduced costs ✅ better cold chain use ✅ stronger supply security Despite this progress, uptake remains difficult to predict—especially ...

The Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH), led by JSI and funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is pleased to share its latest peer-reviewed publication in Vaccines. The study, conducted by the Nigeria Country Learning Hub, piloted a decentralized immunization monitoring (DIM) approach in Kumbotso LGA, Kano...

What does it take to reach zero-dose children? The Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH), led by JSI and funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, convened vaccination experts from Country Learning Hubs, the Gates Foundation, and Clinton Health Access Initiative to share recommendations in an interactive webina...

How do local networks of zero-dose (ZD) stakeholders shape stronger immunization strategies? Join Gavi’s Zero-Dose Learning Hub (ZDLH) on Wednesday, June 11, for a 90-minute webinar featuring country teams from Mali and Nigeria and the Gates Foundation’s Zero-Dose Learning Agenda. Speakers will sha...

Join Gavi’s Zero-Dose Learning Hub and the Gates Foundation’s Zero-Dose Learning Agenda on Wednesday, May 28, for a webinar that explores the spectrum of factors influencing the ability to identify, monitor, and measure zero-dose children and missed communities. This 90-minute webinar will feature i...

Dear colleagues, In 2025, the Interagency Supply Chain Group will be leading a new initiative to address the critical challenges of Supply Chain fragmentation by forming a Taskforce on Supply Chain Integration. The ISG aims to bring together a diverse group of Global Health Supply Chain profession...

The Vaccine Innovation Prioritisation Strategy (VIPS) is a collaboration between the Gavi Secretariat, World Health Organization (WHO), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and PATH to evaluate and prioritize vaccine product innovations for low- and l...

Project Last Mile (PLM) is an innovative public-private partnership launched in 2010 between The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID),President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), The Global Fund and Bill & Melinda Gates F...

PATH's Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Introducing Digital Immunization information systems: Exchange and Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) project is very excited to announce the release of their second case study:  The Design, Development, and Deployme...

The Introducing Digital Immunization information systems - Exchange And Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) is a PATH project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which has been working closely with Vietnam’s Ministry of Health in facilitating a successful transition from paper record...

PATH's Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Introducing Digital Immunization information systems: Exchange and Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) project is very excited to announce the release of their second case study:  VIETNAM’S SCALE-UP FROM A DISTRICT-LEVEL PILOTTO A NATION...

Please join the PATH Introducing Digital Immunization information systems: Exchange and Learning from Vietnam (IDEAL-Vietnam) project for a webinar on scaling-up electronic immunization information systems. The webinar will take place on Thursday, February 27th at 1pm CET. During the webinar the pr...

The recently published topic page on dose per container (DPC) provides a range of useful resources from case studies to decision support documents to better understand the effects of DPC on six immunization system components; namely operational costs, timely coverage, safety, wastage, and polic...

This document is designed to support EPI managers and their teams in the implementation of EIR-related information systems, using the various experiences compiled at the global level – and, especially, in the Region of the Americas – as a foundation. Within this context, the main objectives of this...

A new open-access tool, Immunization Financing Resource Guide, is now available for advocates, policymakers, and program managers in low- and middle-income countries. The guide includes 26 briefs, including 8 country case studies, and covers a range of topics such as evaluating the pros and cons of ...

Dose per Container Partnership (DPCP) The issue: Multi-dose containers are used to offer lower prices, higher supply volumes, and minimize cold chain storage and distribution requirements. As new, more expensive, vaccines are introduced in multi-dose presentations, maximizing the use of every dose ...

by Raja Rao, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently conducted a landscape analysis of the market for cold chain equipment, in particular vaccine refrigerators and freezers. The analysis was based on extensive interviews with cold chain equipment exper...

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 Raja Rao, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Earlier this year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Raja Rao gives an overview of each proposa...

The Logistimo team is humbled to receive support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Grand Challenge Explorations" program to advance new approaches to optimize immunization systems. It is a tremendous opportunity to apply mobile and cloud technology to improve vaccine supply chains ...