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VVM Webinar video and presentation now available

Dear Community, The video and presentation of the great webinar on Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM) that took place on Tuesday 21 are now available! Link to the presentation: https://www.technet-21.org/en/library/main/6160-vvm-based-vacine-management-technet-21-webinar Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBs5_tZP10&t=20s (don't forget to like and/or comment the video and sucribe to the TechNet Youtube channel!) The discussion is still open, so if you have questions related to the content of this webinar or VVM in general, please reply to this post; the webinar panelists Umit Kartoglu, Ted Prusik and Debbie Kristensen will be happy to help and answer. Thanks to all participants, and we look forward to seeing you at the next TechNet webinar in February!...

"THE BOOK OF VVM: Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow" is now available for free download

The story of a time and temperature indicator (vaccine vial monitor) that has dramatically changed the course of vaccine management practices as well as shaped the future of cold chain, THE BOOK OF VVM: YESTERDAY-TODAY-and-TOMORROW is now available for free download in ePUB3 and PDF formats. http://kartoglu.ch/vvm We may ask ourselves where humanity might be without some of the greatest inventions that have come to pass. Great ideas have continuously changed the path of human civilization over time with vaccination being widely considered one of the greatest medical achievements of modern civilization. Many commonplace and preventable childhood diseases are now increasingly rare because of vaccines. The concerted human effort to bring the vaccines to the ones who need them at the right time is remarkable. Just one example of the dedication and self-sacrifice involved was the 1925 ‘Serum Run’ between the settlements of Nenana and Nome in Alaska also known as the Great Race of M...

* New WHO Publications * available: Global Vaccine Market Report, Vaccine Purchases data & HPV market study

Vaccine Purchase Data Note for Countries (2019): provides an overview of 2018 vaccine purchase data (including vaccine products and vaccine prices) as reported by countries in the WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form (JRF). The complete database is also available on the WHO Website. This dataset provides reference points on prices paid for vaccines in countries across all regions. This can provide a reference for EPI managers, procurement and budget officers adding to existing public data sets.   NEW FOR 2019: The document now also includes a complete list of vaccine products available for procurement – including non-prequalified-vaccines (building on reported vaccines and other public sources) . This is also available in excel to filter and narrow your searches. Global Vaccine Market Report (2019): a snapshot view of the global vaccine market covering all vaccines and countries and complementing existing resources focused on specific market segments.  HPV Glo...

Pre Pulse Polio Day Procession

Dear viewers We the KVG team wish to share the following, a few photos also attached. India has seen its last polio case in Jan 2011, got the eradication certificate in March 2014 – a mile stone event in public health. All countries have threat of resurgence until global eradication is achieved. Currently the threat is not only from the WPV (163 in 2019) but also from cVDPV (259) occurring in both endemic and non-endemic countries, for containing both, achieving and sustaining very high vaccination coverage is mandatory. Since the first round of Pulse Polio held on 9th Dec 1995, India is conducting National Immunization Days, this year is on 19th Jan 2020: 50th round. Every year since 1995, before the first round, KVG Medical College and all other educational institutions in collaboration with Government regularly and jubilantly conducted the “Jatha”. Dr Subramanya, Taulka Health officer, Dr Narayana Holla, Professor from Community Medicine, KVG Medical College highlighted the...

Upcoming webinar on VVM-based vaccine management - January 21st @ 4pm CET

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 critical role of VVM in vaccine management policies as well as the VVM shaping the future of the (digitized) cold chain. The presenters will be: Umit Kartoglu, Co-founder and CEO, Extensio et Progressio, Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland (author of The Book of VVM) Debbie Kristensen, Director of Vaccine Technology, Strategy, and Policy / Medical Devices and Health Technologies, PATH, Geneva, Switzerland Ted Prusik, Co-founder and Senior Vice President, Temptime Corporation, Morris Plains, NJ, USA For presenter biographies, refer to the attached document. It is not an overstatement to say that VVM is one of the most important recent innovations in the area of public health, provid...

Effective Vaccine Management assessment tools

Dear TechNet colleagues

i'm looking for the updated version of the Effective Vaccine Management assessment “EVM” tools, if anyone has it; appreciate if shared it with me

 

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Enroll Now- Registration Start for Online PGD in Global Health PSM_March 2020

Empower's 22nd Batch of the Online Post Graduate Diploma Course in Global Health Procurement and Supply Chain Management, in collaboration with Kent State University, USA, is scheduled to launch in MARCH 2020 . This is an 11-month online program which includes 9 extensive modules structured to address one topic per month Key Takeaways from the course: - its global orientation ¬ sharing of experiences from across countries, - a practical and applied approach to the extensive use of exercises, case studies, projects and internships - technical assistance for one-year offered which includes Mentoring/Coaching from the Subject Matter Experts - an online competency assessment tool (CAT) - a community of practice (through Empower’s Big Learning Platform) - use of cutting-edge e-learning technologies and instructional design to make learning easy and impactful Kindly click on this link to register - http://bit.ly/2UzLGnf For any query email me at info@empowerschoolofhealth.org...

Job Opportunity: Supply Chain Workforce Strengthening Specialist, IntraHealth, Washington DC

Dear Colleagues, IntraHealth is seeking a Supply Chain Workforce Strengthening Specialist to work on the USAID-funded Global Health Supply Chain project. The Specialist provides strategic leadership and technical support through a holistic organizational and human resources systems approach to improve and sustain the performance of the supply chain workforce, with reference to private sector approaches. This position is based at the project headquarters in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, with travel internationally as needed, approximately 30% of the time. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States at the time of application.For more information go to: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1028/JobBoard/e2116091-25aa-2eb8-64d2-db11ee75b469/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=0f4f6d99-ce1d-4c05-b273-1722b8caeaae Regards,Andrew Dr Andrew Brown | Senior Director, Health Workforce Development(Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Canberra)IntraHealth International ...

Country vaccination policies worldwide

Dear all, I am a researcher at the University of Oxford working on a project to compare country vaccination policies worldwide and was wondering if you could help me with finding some information. Could you please tell me whether any of the vaccines recommended in the national immunisation schedule in your country are mandatory, such as in order to enter school? And do you know of any legislation on which this is based? I will of course acknowledge any contributions. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! You can see in the map below I'm slowly starting to get country data but I still have some gaps. I intend this to be an open-access resource for people to provide the first comprehensive list of vaccination policies worldwide.

Kind regards, Samantha Vanderslott Dr Samantha Vanderslott Social Sciences Researcher, Oxford Vaccine Group 34 Broad St, OX1 3BD University of Oxford

https://samanthavanderslott.com/