Nine officials from Egypt’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) strengthened their technical skills in Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) during a 10-day training at the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Kigali, Rwanda (3–15 M...

Reaching zero-dose children requires evidence that can be applied in real programs and policy decisions. A new post on Gavi’s VaccinesWork blog shows how the Zero-Dose Learning Hub is translating implementation research from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda into practical tools and insights tha...

The Zero-Dose Learning Hub, led by JSI, has released its October 2025 semiannual reports, sharing new implementation research and system insights from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda. These findings offer practical lessons for practitioners and program leaders, highlighting the factors that co...

The Immunization Economics Community of Practice are holding a webinar on 10 December 2025 at 15:00 Central European Time on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, click here to register now! Presenters will share a global synthesis of the evidence on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, as w...

Come learn how implementation research is helping immunization programmes reach zero dose children! Under the MAINSTREAM project, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local mentor institutes have...

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...

Join us next Monday for an exciting webinar discussing Lessons Learned from the Big Catch-up!   The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local partners have conducted case studies of the BCU i...

We are happy to share that the technical resources toolbox for HPV vaccination programs on TechNet-21 have undergone updates! Over 35 new resources such as tools, journal articles, presentations, infographics, guidance documents (and more!) have been uploaded to the toolbox. New additions include ke...

Dear colleagues,  Africa CDC & WHO (AFRO & EMRO) are pleased to announce the official launch of the Joint Emergency Preparedness & Response Action Plan (JEAP) website. JEAP, officially launched in 2023 on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, is a strategic col...

  Dear Colleagues, Greetings! I am writing to raise a question regarding the recent WHO-prequalified Hexavalent vaccine (HEXASIIL) manufactured by SII. There has been growing interest in switching from Penta to Hexa due to its potential advantages, such as a reduction in the numb...

Parsyl and Berlinger partner to strenghten cold chain monitoring in LMIC. This is done by ensuring validated compatibility between the data generated by Berlinger's Fridge-tags and Q-tags on one hand, and the supply chain insurance solutions of Parsyl on the other hand. Your temperature data can ...

INFUSE 2024 call for innovations Gavi is proud to announce that INFUSE 2024 is actively seeking innovative solutions uniquely positioned to enhance health systems, enabling them to effectively manage resilient and climate-adaptive responses to climate threats.  *** Gavi, the Vaccine Alli...

Invitation to participate in prioritization of HPV vaccine implementation research questions survey. In all regions of the world, HPV vaccination coverage remains stubbornly low in many countries.  Globally, the average first HPV dose coverage was only 59% in 2022. This coverage is far below the 90...

In case you missed it, People that Deliver and VillageReach have published an op-ed on the Devex homepage entitled Why we need to professionalize the health supply chain workforce. It explains that the supply chain management skills gap is one of the reasons why more than half of the African p...

Have you registered for the PtD Global Indaba? Don't miss out! Between 6 and 8 March 2024 People that Deliver (PtD) will host the second edition of the PtD Global Indaba in Bangkok, Thailand, a conference that focuses exclusively on human resources for health supply chain management. On Friday 8 Ma...

Dear Colleagues, National pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) are central government divisions responsible for medicines regulation, health supply chain, and pharmaceutical services. They impact the government’s ability to serve as stewards of the health system and ensure equitable and easy acces...

Abstract submission for the PtD Global Indaba closes this Friday 1 December. Don't miss the oppportunity to present the work of your organisation!   Early-bird registration also ends this Friday, after which the registration price will rise.   Submit an abstract here: https://ptde...