Dear all, we hope you are in good health and staying safe. We have just released version 1.9 of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) tool for cold chain equipment. Also update is the online tool www.coldchainTCO.org  Version 1.9 includes price updates from the latest UNICEF SD LTA as well as four...

A business continuity plan (BCP) outlines how a programme or project will continue operating during an unplanned disruption in service. It contains contingencies for processes, assets, human resources and partners – every aspect of the programme that might be affected. The BCP for immunization suppl...

Commentary paper authored by me, Kelly Lynn Moore and John Lloyd "Logistical challenges for potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and a call to research institutions, developers and manufacturers" is now available online in VACCINE journal. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/p...

The challenge before us is an enormous one – many lives hang in the balance. But never in the history of the world have we had as many resources available to craft solutions as we do today. When a Covid-19 vaccination is developed, we have the benefit of innovative homegrown tech that already exists...

The Health System Map and Its Actors: Introducing you to the key actors who make up the Kenyan Immunization Program July 2, 2020, 9:30 a.m. EDT / 1:30 p.m. GMT REGISTER HERE: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o32Yz42hTfyiq-vwn-cktQ Join JSI and Sonder Design Collective for a second in ...

Hybrid Solar Power Pack for Walk In CoolerA Green Initiative........NCCRC,being largely instrumental in the area of integrating the newer technologies in the cold chain & continually putting its efforts towards making the immunization cold chain more & more reliable. As striving for excellen...

Dear colleagues, As we start the process of planning for re-start of campaigns, I wanted to highlight a new app developed by the WHO academy to providehealth workers with mobile access to a wealth of COVID-19 knowledge resources, that include up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and vir...

Dear Partners and Coleagues,   As Haier Biomedical is a manufacturer of medical cold chain for more than 20 years, recently we are always asked what cold chain solution is recommended for the Covid-19, especially for the RT-PCR Kit, virus sample and vaccine transportation and storage. T...

I have been working on solar electric cooking systems which are appropriate for the developing. The system I think has the most promise is a solar direct system,no batteries. Thermal storage allows hot food to be eaten 5 hours after sunset. A  single 280 watt PV module would supply al...

You are invited to join an upcoming webinar: Re-framing how we think about decision-making: 3 lessons from healthcare workers and managers in Kenya June 18, 2020, 9:30 a.m. EST / 3:30 p.m. GMT REGISTER HERE:  https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PJf7_O9KThKeLUWWKl-kOA  Join JSI and...

Dear colleagues, We would like to share some important news with the TechNet community. Immunization Academy has launched its second online training tool created specifically for health workers and their managers. In addition to IA Watch, our video lesson platform, you may now use IA Learn to acce...

Chers collègues, Nous sommes tous préoccupés par l'impact de la Covid-19 sur la vaccination au fur et à mesure de l'évolution de la pandémie. Le besoin de données actualisées est important. Notre objectif est d'harmoniser les efforts actuels de collecte de données sur l'impact dans toutes les régio...

Dear colleagues, We are all concerned about the impact of Covid on immunization as the pandemic evolves. The need for up-to-date data is high. Going forward our goal is to harmonize the ongoing efforts of data collection on the impact from all regions, but to have a quick idea of how immunization s...

An Immunization Pulse Poll in the context of COVID-19 conducted between 14 and 24 April, with 801 responses from 107 countries, showed that disruption to the routine immunization program are widespread and affect all WHO regions. 64% of countries represented in the poll indicated that routine immuni...

Dear Colleagues, Please circulate the following opportunity within your networks.IntraHealth is looking for a 'Senior Advisor for health workforce strengthening' to support the conceptualization and implementation of IntraHealth’s technical approach to improving the performance, productivity and su...

PROMOTING EQUITY THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN June 3, 2020, 4:00-5:00pm CEST REGISTER HERE: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EoDaBqqkRaSFRLgKo9Fk6Q  Join VillageReach and JSI for a discussion on how supply chains can be adapted to be more responsive to the needs of under-served populat...

The International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) hosted a series of webinars to celebrate World Immunization Week 2020. This webinar series featured IVAC experts speaking on the current and future state of vaccines around the world, and included:  Measuring the economic impact of vaccines VoI...

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...

TechNet has recently released a page that gathers major technical guidance documents from WHO on maintaining immunization services during the Covid-19 pandemic: https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/covid-19  Currently, you'll find global guidance as well as guidance from WHO regions. In a...

Dear Technet community, Hope you’re well. I’d like to share a short article I wrote (published on May 15) making the case to immediately start planning for COVID-19 immunization delivery and suggesting activities to focus on now. The article focuses on India, but the core points and suggestions fo...