Nine officials from Egypt’s Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) strengthened their technical skills in Cold Chain Equipment Management (CCEM) during a 10-day training at the EAC Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management in Kigali, Rwanda (3–15 M...

A new tool for collecting, analysing, and reporting temperature data has been released by WHO. This Microsoft Excel tool, which can be used as part of a temperature monitoring study, is available as a zip file on the WHO website, and comes with a set of user documentation.  www.who.int/publica...

The ‘Cold chain equipment and dry store temperature mapping tool’ is a tool for mapping temperatures in various types of cold chain equipment and dry stores and is available in official United Nations (UN) languages. Version 10.0 was released in January 2026 and includes various performance improvem...

Are you interested in how cutting-edge technology is solving real-world challenges with the vaccine cold chain? Join us for an exclusive deep dive into the Varo/Pogo-LT application - a game-changer for temperature data collection and vaccine safety. We’re exploring how this innovative tool is being...

Here is something we rarely say out loud in our sector. Every time we pull a pharmacist or a logistician out of their facility for a classroom training, the pharmacy or the supply chain behind them doesn't pause. The stockouts don't wait. The cold chain doesn't care about the workshop schedule. &n...

Hi, TechNet Friends. We are conducting a short research survey on vaccine cold chain reliability and would welcome your participation. The survey is part of a study applying a behavioral science framework to the operational practices that sustain immunization supply chains — an area where the exper...

Chers collègues, Bonjour, j’espère que vous allez bien. Je mène actuellement une recherche doctorale sur le transfert de technologies et son impact sur l’innovation et la production pharmaceutique locale en Afrique, avec un focus sur le Nigeria, le Cameroun et le Sénégal. Compte tenu de l’experti...

Dear colleagues, Greetings, I hope you are doing well. I am currently conducting a doctoral research study on technology transfer and its impact on innovation and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, Cameroon, and Senegal. Given the expertise within this communit...

Happy  2026,   Wanted to share this opportunity with you. ........   Artificial Intelligence tools are penetrating the Supply Chain Sector! Are you ready to embrace AI in an effective way?  Routine work of many health supply chain professionals includes analysing data, ...

Hi everyone, I’m looking to learn more about how temperature-sensitive medicines and vaccines are monitored during delivery, particularly in areas of the world that have limited connectivity/unreliable power. I was thinking about rural communities or for example transporting typhoid vaccines in are...

Switching from sepaetae pentavalent +IPV to Hexavalent vaccine will reduce the logistic, storage and nos of injection as well as price, so what is the purpose of doing cost analysis?...

Webinar.   Date & Time: Feb 18, 2026 02:00 PM in Luxembourg   Description This webinar highlights how the Indigo Cold Chain Vaccine Carrier is expanding immunization access to zero-dose children. The first presentation, led by Global South Health Ventures, introduc...

Leveraging Chap and the DHIS2 platform for stock forecastingTuesday, 27 January 2026 14:00 – 15:00 CET Virtual - En ligne Le webinaire disposera d’une interprétation simultanée en françaisReliable health supply chains are vital for patient care, and stock availability serves as a key performance ind...

TechNet has published a new page that contains a huge list of user guides for WHO-PQS prequalified cold chain equipment temperature monitoring devices. It is organised into the following sections: Shipping indicators Freeze indicators Threshold indicators Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVM) Remote te...

Dear colleagues - As many of you are already aware, New Horizons will be concluding our operations by end of this year. To minimize disruption to countries and partners, we have worked diligently over the past months to identify and transition a variety of critical tools and workstreams to oth...

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Development, Manufacturing, and Distribution of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Enzyme Immunoassays (EIAs) for Acute Typhoid Fever Surveillance Typhoid fever (TF) is a severe systemic illness associated with abdominal pain, fever and occasionally can be l...

Join us on 8 December at 15h30 CET for a webinar introducing post market monitoring of cold chain equipment.  Post Market Monitoring (PMM) of immunization cold chain equipment (CCE) involves collecting and analysing performance data from health and storage facilities to support timely correcti...

Dear Colleagues, The Peer Learning Certificate 1: Supply Chain Data for Decision Making is the first of its kind eLearning program designed for supply chain professionals where you will learn alongside your peers and an expert.  Learn with Emmanuel Nfor - who has led supply chains a...

This happened in August 2025 !----------------------------------------------------🌍✨ A Double Milestone for Health and Immunization in Zambia!The DRIVE initiative and the Health Facility Solarization and Electrification Project✨🌍We are proud to celebrate two remarkable achievements that mark a new c...

[Français ci-dessous] Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming edition of our Virtual KLIC Innovation Agora series - vKIA #10: "From Training to Transformation: Embedding Capacity-Building Systems into the Workplace" We warmly invite you to join u...