The current issue of the alumni magazine from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/) has a feature on supply chain management. There are many links to explore: A Global Supply Chain Forum (http://gsb.stanford.edu/scforum/) An article on the supply chain 'Bu...

Are dairy chains and routine vaccine chains complementary? In Karnataka (South India) milk unions pick-up milk from even remote villages with amazing regularity/predictability (without special technology to speak of). Vehicles with "chillers" travel empty, and return with milk to the semi-urban proc...

Dear Editor, UNICEF, in collaboration with WHO and PATH, took a country-wide extensive evaluation of Cold Chain and Vaccine Management in Uganda in 2007. I happened to be the Team Leader for the project. I take the opportunity to attach the report and request you to share it with all TechNet21 me...

The video of the WHO-PDA Parmaceutical cold chain management on wheels course conducted during 2-7 June 2008 in Istanbul, Ankara, Konya, Eskiehir and Bursa (a 1,400 km route), Turkey. [vimeo]8785477[/vimeo]...

Written by: Kevin Pilz, USAID contractor and Bonnie Keith, RHSC Public-health systems everywhere depend upon reliable and efficient supply of medicines and health commodities to ensure positive health outcomes. Despite this, supply chains in low- and middle-income countries are rarely recognized ...

Under the auspices of the UNICEF-led Cold Chain and Logistics Task Force (http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_42071.html), with a temporary secretariat housed at Project Optimize (http://www.who.int/immunization_delivery/systems_policy/optimize/en/index.html), a group of partners and stakeholde...

by Steve Landry, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Anne Schuchat, CDC; Xavier Tomsej, USAID; Thomas O'Connell, UNICEF; David Lee, Management Sciences for Health, and Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO In July 2010, Optimize convened workshops in Washington, DC and Seattle, WA, to engage a wide range o...

Supply chain assessment reveals opportunities for Vietnamby Nguyen Tuyet Nga and Joanie Robertson, PATH, and Nguyen Van Cuong, NIHE When Vietnam’s National Expanded Program on Immunization (NEPI) and Optimize agreed to explore novel public-sector supply chain solutions for Vietnam, they started with...

Tunisia to demonstrate innovative supply chain solutions for the futureby Patrick Lydon and Ibrahim Abdel Rahim, WHO A new era of immunization supply systems officially got under way on Friday, January 22, 2010, in Tunis, when the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and ...

Partners begin effort to envision future supply chain systemsby Brent Burkholder, CDC, and Ibrahim El-Ziq, UNICEF Supply Division In November 2009 at the GAVI Alliance Partners Forum in Hanoi, a group of 43 participants sat down to discuss their vision for future supply chain systems for health. Th...

AVI initiative confronts supply chain shortcomingsby Stefano Malvolti, PATH, and Souleymane Kone, WHO The Accelerated Vaccine Introduction (AVI) initiative will see the first wave of pneumococcal vaccines entering up to 15 GAVI Alliance-approved countries in 2010. Another 11 countries are expected ...

Fee-based immunization in Vietnam—what can we learn?by Dai Hozumi, PATH, and Nguyen Van Cuong, NIHE While most people in Vietnam receive traditional Expanded Programme on Immunization vaccines free from government-run clinics and health centers, many others elect to receive these and other immunizat...

Are Vertical Supply Chains Still Necessary?by Modibo Dicko, Coordinator, Project Optimize, WHO For the past 30 years, immunization—like many other health programs—has been managed as a vertical program with its own management team, reporting requirements, personnel, and supply chain. Attempts to li...

Why Optimize?by Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director General, WHO Family and Community Health Cluster,and Chris Elias, President and CEO, PATH In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH jointly launched Optimize, a five-year effort to help countries anticipate and manage the growing complex...

Tunisia Explores New Supply Chain Solutions for Health by Patrick Lydon, WHO After several preliminary discussions, World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH will collaborate on a project with the Ministry of Health in Tunisia to demonstrate and validate: (a) approaches that address anticipated ch...

Senegal To Explore Integrated Supply Chains and New Delivery Models by Modibo Dicko, WHO; Dr. Aboubakry Fall, Ministry of Public Health Senegal; and Dr. Ndiouga Diallo, PATH Optimize is discussing an agreement with the Ministry of Health in Senegal to explore several new approaches to supply chai...

Vietnam To Assess and Evaluate Opportunities To Optimizeby Joanie Robertson and James Cheyne, PATH Optimize is drafting a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Health, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), in Vietnam to possibly implement two phases of work. The first,...

POST 01325E: FUTURE COLD CHAIN TRENDS 19 SEPTEMBER 2008 ******************************************* On 10 and 11 June 2008, a meeting was held on Cool Chain Technologies for the Future (organized by PATH) at Mijoux, France. Prior to the meeting, discussions were held with cold chain equipme...

POST 01281E: DARK SPECKS IN THE ACTIVE AREA OF THE VVM 16 JUNE 2008 ******************************************* Umit Kartoglu of WHO responds to Bal Ram Bhui’s question regarding how to interpret specks in the VVM’s active surface. ----------- Hi everyone, I would like to bring...

POST 01261E: STRENGTHENING THE VACCINE SUPPLY CHAIN 3 MAY 2008 ******************************************* Rowan Wagner writes about managing an efficient vaccine supply chain. ----------- Recently I received a request for information about logistic training material aimed at vaccine supply ...