The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine roll-out have created new opportunities, interest and applications of digital tools in response to the global health emergency. Many countries have adapted existing digital health information technologies and tools or developed new ones to facilitate the planning, delivery and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines for improving stock visibility, tracking vaccine recipients, understanding community demand and generating vaccine certificates. The pandemic has also highlighted a number of bottlenecks and persistent gaps in immunisation programme digital health information technologies and in the enabling environment. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, recognises the need to build on successes and lessons learned from COVID-19 innovations and digital applications, not only for future health emergencies but for routine childhood immunisation programmes as well. Drawing from recent project reports, documented country experiences and Gavi’s Digital Health Information prioritisation, the following are recommendations for capturing and applying COVID-19 digital applications to future digital health investments.

This Technical Brief provides a summary and review of experiences with new and adapted digital solutions for COVID-19 vaccine delivery at the global, regional and country level to ensure that the lessons, challenges and successful application of digital health information innovations are captured as part of Gavi’s Digital Health Information Strategy.