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The COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project invites Boost community members to an interactive panel where we will update the community on the program's status; host a live conversation featuring national and global immunization professionals; and facilitate a co-creation session to discuss the challenges, support and enablers needed to plan and prepare for fair COVID-19 vaccine delivery.
You will walk out of this panel with:
⚡️ Deeper understanding of the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project and how to engage with us
⚡️ Insight into countries concerns, needs, and desired support as they prepare for COVID-19 vaccine delivery
⚡️ Perspectives from national and global immunization professionals on current vaccine preparedness efforts, including insights into the work being done by the Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) unit at COVAX
⚡️ Key learnings and considerations on what is required for country vaccine delivery action planning
We hope you will join us to discuss this critical and timely topic! Please note that speakers will be announced next week.
Register here to join us: http://bit.ly/UCL_Empower_Webinar
Please register in advance, after which you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
DATE: 19 November 2020
TIME: 1:00 pm Greenwich Mean Time
Preparing the Supply Chain for New Vaccine Introduction is the fourth webinar in the Ensuring a Responsive Immunization Supply Chain Webinar Series. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, December 8th at 13:00 GMT. Cheick Coulibaly, JSI Immunization and Logistics Advisor based in Niger, will join JSI Senior Technical Advisors Greg Roche and Barbara Lamphere in presenting this webinar. The objectives of the webinar are to:
- Identify supply chain considerations for new vaccine introduction
- Describe supply chain lessons learned from rotavirus, PCV and IPV introduction in Niger
- Describe the purpose and components of WHO's COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction Readiness Assessment Tool (VIRAT)
Register here for this webinar:
https://jsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pQNTc4aBSG6WtrnOtaksjA
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.
Over the past few months, Boost has highlighted stories of individuals and partners who have driven change through an intitative called Bright Spots. From immunization in conflict settings to community engagement to bottom-up approaches to planning, there is innovation occurring at all levels of the system. Boost members are invited to engage with story submitters through interactive webinars that showcase promising practices from selected Bright Spots stories. The content of these webinars will be most relevant for immunization program staff working at the national or sub-national level.
This fifth Bright Spots will feature Immunization Technical Officer Green Sadru from John Snow Inc (JSI) as he shares his story of addressing low vaccination coverage in the Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania through interacting with critical stakeholders, such as community religious leaders and health facility governing committees.
Over the course of the session, Sadru will share his process and challenges, lessons learned, successes to date and highlight some of his approaches that might be relevant to you in your own work.
Presented by
Sabin Vaccine Institute, UNICEF and the Boost Community
As part two of a three-part webinar series: Vaccination Misinformation Control and Prevention
Please join Sabin and UNICEF for an interactive webinar: Infodemiology in Practice. Hosted by the Sabin Boost Community, this is event is targeted towards strategies for immunization professionals to manage vaccination misinformation. Sign up now.
Join panelists for a discussion on the emerging field of infodemiology and practical understanding of rumors, stigma and conspiracy theories as they pertain to vaccines. This webinar will feature illustrative case studies based on the ongoing work of First Draft News to address misinformation, and insights from a global social media analysis on the COVID-19 Infodemic.
Over the past few months, Boost has highlighted stories of individuals and partners who have driven change through an intitative called Bright Spots. From immunization in conflict settings to community engagement to bottom-up approaches to planning, there is innovation occurring at all levels of the system. Boost members are invited to engage with story submitters through interactive webinars that showcase promising practices from selected Bright Spots stories. The content of these webinars will be most relevant for immunization program staff working at the national or sub-national level.
This webinar will feature a team from the Solina Center for International Development and Research (SCIDaR) as they share their story of engaging with local leaders and community naming systems to improve vaccine demand in Yobe State, Nigeria.
Over the course of the session, the team will share their process, lessons learned and highlight some of the tools and approaches that may be relevant to you in your own work.
Set against the backdrop of timely and much needed intersecting intergovernmental plans of action; namely The WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030), the New Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and the WHO Immunisation Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy, delivering on a life course approach to immunisation has never been so important.
Please join members from the Immunisation for All Ages (IFAA) initiative, including the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC UK), International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) in this webinar call to action.
Workforce and leadership development are central to the future of public health. The vital issues of today demand public health leaders who are as skilled at managing the technical and systemic aspects of public health.
Empower School of Health is hosting a webinar with a panel of experts on leadership styles for its community of learners. This webinar will help you identify your personal brand of leadership style and build on this style to achieve your potential as a LEADER.
Join us on 27th Oct 2020 @ 2:00 PM (Central European Time)
Please register here: http://bit.ly/Webinar_Leadershipstyle
Overview
Several thousands of health workers join the public health system in Low-and Middle-Income countries every year. Out of those, many get roped into public health supply chain without any context specific technical training, which is described as task shifting. Since, most of the public health supply chains in LMICs are still largely donor driven, the organisations find it difficult to develop competencies in those cadres to achieve efficiency in the workplace. There are several training courses on health supply chain available in the market today which are offered in classroom settings or online. However, most of those courses do not consider the contextual learning needs of the candidate or provide them with real-world competencies.
Currently, there is a push for health professionals to learn supply chain concepts through internationally accredited organisations like APICS, CIPS, CILT etc. However, most of us don’t ask the question of how do we apply the commercial sector concepts in public sector or whether the health professionals are equipped to handle those intensive courses? There is no question about the quality or relevance of the materials in those courses, but students must be fully equipped for the advanced learning on offer.
Moreover, all the professionally accredited courses or other health supply chain courses are mostly beyond the financial reach of most candidates in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A few who are able to participate, do that with high financial burden, or funded by their organisations. Hence, there remains a demand for a course which competes with the professionally accredited courses on quality of content and are offered in an affordable manner in making it accessible to everyone.
The Collective Learning Certificate Course: Supply Chain for Health combines the internationally accepted supply chain competencies with the public health context, to make it relevant and relatable for public health academics and professionals. It is the first course in the sector, where participants not only learn from the content, but also from their peers through several group and individual networking opportunities.
The course is designed using European Qualifications Framework (EQF: Level 5), and focusses on key competencies at tactical and operational level (from People that Deliver Competency Compendium for Health Supply Chain Management).
At the end of this course, Learners will be able to:
Who is this course for?
Public Health Professionals with up to 5 years of experience – Pharmacists, Doctors, Nurses, Biomedical Engineers, Frontline Health Workers, Management Staff working in supply chains or health programs.
Healthcare Academics – Graduate or Post graduate students of Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering who intend to learn about the public health supply chain
Access to the Course
The course begins on 16th November. You can enroll today to save your seat, there are only 50 seats for the first cohort.
Registration is easy, follow the link below, fill the details, make the payment, and you will receive course details. The course is priced at USD 80, you can receive early bird discount, if you register before 4th November.
The Visibility for Vaccines (ViVa) platform is a stock visibility dashboard that visualizes the pipeline of current stocks, vaccine orders as well as forecasts. It enables country governments to better identify and prevent potential vaccine stock outs or overstocks before they occur. The platform was developed by UNICEF, with funding from the UPS Foundation, and first introduced in 2016. ViVa currently has over 350 registered users in 37 countries.
This new course trains users on the functionalities of the ViVa platform, how to effectively analyze and interpret ViVa’s dashboards and data, as well as on how to integrate this analysis into routine business processes in countries. By adopting this comprehensive approach, the training aims to both strengthen Viva user competencies as well as promote a more data-based approach to vaccine supply decision-making.
The main target audience for this course are national government EPI staff. UNICEF country and regional staff, as well as other in-country vaccine partners, will also benefit from this course.
The training is availble on the Agora training website and is available in French and English.
You can access the course through the following links:
English: https://agora.unicef.org/course/view.php?id=25034
French: https://agora.unicef.org/course/view.php?id=25803
Dear VPPN Members:
We are pleased to invite you to a Knowledge Sharing Session on:
Learning from sub-regional experiences in cross-country collaboration
in the procurement of medicines and vaccines
Key learning objectives:
- Sharing research findings from WHO EURO report on Cross-Country Collaborations to improve access to medicines and vaccines
- Understanding benefits of cross-country collaboration for vaccine procurement
- Providing lessons learned about cross-country collaboration from sub-regional examples including the ‘Baltic Procurement Initiative’ and BeNeLuxa Initiative
Date & Time:
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 2020 09:00-10:00AM Copenhagen time (CET)
Presenters:
- Ms Tifenn Humbert, Technical Officer, Access to medicines and health products Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dr Oleg Benes, Technical Officer, Vaccine-preventable Diseases and Immunization at WHO/Europe
- Ms Eveli Bauer, Chief specialist, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Department, Estonian Health Insurance Fund
- Francis Arickx, Advisor general, Head of Directorate, Directorate Pharmaceutical Policy, Health Care Department, National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV INAMI), Brussels, BE, Representative of BeNeLuxa Initiative
- Sub-Regional speaker – to be confirmed
Moderators:
- Andrea Papan, VPPN, Community of Practice Manager, UNICEF
- Loïc Sanchez, Supply Officer (Immunization), Supply Division, UNICEF
Additional Resources:
- Cross-country collaborations to improve access to medicines and vaccines in the WHO European Region (2020)
- 4th PPRI Conference: Medicines access challenge – The value of pricing and reimbursement policies, Abstract Poster Book
- ASEAN Vaccine Security and Self-Reliance (AVSSR) Initiatives: A Healthy ASEAN Community through Access of Assured Quality Vaccines
PLEASE NOTE: Registration is compulsory to participate in this webinar:
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://unicef.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cUuhWCMGQaaZTBG-v3IHFw
Or an H.323/SIP room system:
H.323:
162.255.37.11 (US West)
162.255.36.11 (US East)
221.122.88.195 (China)
115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)
115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)
213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands)
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Meeting ID: 956 9635 6376
Passcode: 119398
SIP: [email protected]
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
We look forward to your participation!
Kind regards,
Andrea
WHO PQS Prequalified Manufacturers will show some of their products. Some time will be allocated to questions and answers.
During this session, the members of the Partnership of Immunization Networks (PIN) will introduce their respective platforms and show how they can help immunization professionals in their job. Some time will also be allocated for questions and answers.
The Partnership of Immunization Networks (PIN) is composed of:
BOOST https://boostcommunity.org/
The Geneva Learning Foundation https://www.learning.foundation/
Immunization Academy https://watch.immunizationacademy.com/
IAPHL https://iaphl.org/
TechNet-21 www.technet-21.org
REGISTRATION: https://who.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldeutrjosEtxl1XHL3q2PGmzFoy4klUcd
The closing ceremony of the 16th TechNet Conference.
Full conference agenda: www.technet-21.org/conference/2020
Closing remarks
Karan Sagar (Gavi)
A word of appreciation for two departing colleagues
Adama Sawadogo (UNICEF)
Let's keep talking
Dan Brigden (WHO)
Conference closing
Souleymane Kone (WHO)
Plenary: Conference re-opening
Welcome back
Adama Sawadogo (UNICEF)
The impact of Covid-19 on imunization services and guiding principles for immunization activities during severe disruptions
Diana Chang-Blanc (WHO)
Love in the time of COVID: How can resilient supply chains save health systems in the long term?
Peter Okebukola (McKinsey & Co)
This presentation highlights the critical role of supply chains in building resilient health systems, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and provides some suggestions for tactical steps that decision makers can take to position the supply chains for success in the long term.
Financing for sustainable and resilient supply chains
Sena Kwawa (frontdoor)
Sharing relevant private sector experience around resilience and different ways of problem solving!
TechNet-21 is a member of the Partnership of Immunization Networks (PIN), which has been created to strengthen collaboration between organizations that serve distinct yet interconnected online communities of immunization professionals. The PIN provides a convening mechanism for member organizations to better meet the needs of their respective communities, with the goal of enabling immunization professionals to strengthen immunization services – and thereby vaccination coverage rates – around the world. In this closing plenary session of Day one, we will hear from the different members of the PIN and learn about the services they provide.
The Partnership of Immunization Networks
Dan Brigden
TechNet-21
Alex Pascutto (WHO)
BOOST
Sarah Kester
The Geneva Learning Foundation
Reda Saki
IAPHL
Walter Proper
Immunization Academy
Nathan Pienkowski
Introducing the PIN Marketplace
Dan Brigden (WHO)
Registration: https://who.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldeutrjosEtxl1XHL3q2PGmzFoy4klUcd
The opening ceremony of the 16th TechNet Conference.
Conference opening
Soulemane Kone (WHO).
Opening remarks
Ann Lindstrand (WHO)
Robin Nandy (UNICEF)
Alex de Jonquieres (Gavi)
Building resilience in the ‘global South’: A message from Senegal
Dr Marie Khémesse Ngom Ndiaye (Director-General, Ministry of Health, Senegal).
Ensuring that countries are ready for a Covid-19 vaccine
Benjamin Schreiber (UNICEF)
Overview of the Country Readiness and Delivery (CRaD) working group that is co-lead by WHO and UNICEF and is developing tools, guidance and approaches to ensure countries are ready for a covid-19 vaccine introduction. The objective is to coordinate approaches with key stakeholders and partners, communicate and monitor progress.
Ensuring access to medication: innovating to minimize the impact of COVID-19: A message from the winner of the Oman Youth Covid-19 Innovation Challenge
Saada Al Salti (Team Teryaq)
The global pandemic has been a rallying call for youth innovators and entrepreneurs across the world. Young people are eager to contribute their talents and passion to helping those in need, and making societies more resilient. Saada Al Salti is team lead of Team Teryaq – the winners of the Oman Youth Covid-19 Innovation Challenge. It was held in June with support from the Oman Technology Fund and Unicef, to engage young local innovators and startups with the goal of creating solutions for health and education sectors that are rooted in technology.
In this session you will hear from several countries that have taken a system design approach to improve the performance of their immunization supply chains. Zambia and DRC have both changed significant components of their supply chains based on evidence, and the results are impressive. This session will also highlight the results of the system design analysis from Madagascar, Niger and Guinea.
Moderators:
Wendy Prosser (JSI)
Dalia Khattab (JSI)
Presenters:
Olamide Folorunso (UNICEF)
Francis Mwansa (MOH/Zambia)
Freddy Nkosi (VillageReach)
The EVM assessment tool has been revamped to facilitate national assessments and continuous Improvement Plans with minimal external support. The new tool’s ease and flexibility now also enables countries to manage self-assessments at any level, to facilitate continuous ISC improvement and support national resilience through capacity development and empowered workforce.
https://extranet.who.int/evm2/web
Moderator: Maricel Castro (WHO)
Video: The EVM process
Key features of the EVM2 tool
Dan Brigden (WHO EPI)
EVM assessments in the Covid-19 context
Souleymane Kone (WHO EPI)
Iraq EVM 2019
Firas Al Mosawi (National EPI Manager, Iraq MoH)
Mudher Subhey (National Cold Chain Officer, Iraq MoH)
Nigeria EVM 2019
Hajiya Kubura Daradara (Director Logistics and Health Commodities, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria)
Continuous ISC improvement with EVM2
Dmitri Davydov (UNICEF)