Registration Link to register for the webinar Dear TechNet Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the third and final webinar in our Strategic Vaccine Procurement Series—an opportunity to explore a critical, often complex dimension of vaccine procurement: the role of legal and re...

Sharing the following from WHO's World Immunization Week 2026 website. Vaccines have long been one of the most powerful tools in public health. Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives – not by accident, but because ordinary people made the decision to protect themsel...

Dear colleagues,I have just put together a comprehensive slide deck on the Field-Anchored Vaccine Specification Matrix (FAVSM) - a framework I developed and published through IntechOpen in March 2026 to translate field operational constraints directly into vaccine product design requirements.The dec...

Register for the webinar here Dear TechNet Members, Are you also facing challenges with vaccine supply security and would like to strengthen your preparedness to vaccine stockouts? Our next webinar – the second in our strategic vaccine procurement series, that will take place on Thu...

UNICEF is pleased to invite you to save the date for the upcoming BCU Case Studies Webinar, where selected countries will share experiences and lessons learned from the implementation of the Big Catch-Up (BCU).   Big Catch-Up Case Studies Webinar: Lessons from Country Implementati...

The SAGE meeting highlights have been published in form of a SAGE Digest Webinar following the March meeting (9-12).   Click here to watch the video summary:  The discussion covered: Global and Regional Reports Immunization Agenda 2030  COVID-19  Typhoid  Polio...

Link to join the webinar on 24 March   Dear TechNet Colleagues, We would be very glad to welcome you to our next VPPN onboarding webinar, that will take place on Tuesday, 24 March, at 11am GMT+1. Join us on 24 March to meet and chat with peers from around the world and us, the team behind t...

Dear Colleagues,  The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) of the World Health Organization is seeking qualified experts to serve on a SAGE Working Group on yellow fever vaccination yellow fever SAGE Working Group on yello...

Dear Colleaques, Happy to share with you the latest edition of my newsletter titled "POLIO 2026 - Second eradication target, and the endgame is getting more expensive, not less."   Pakistan and Afghanistan remain a single transmission corridor for wild poliovirus type 1. Environmental detect...

Register for the webinar here Dear TechNet members, New year, new Vaccine Procurement Practitioners Network (VPPN) webinar series!Join us on Thursday, 5 February, at 1pm GMT+1, for the first webinar in our 3-part series on strategic vaccine procurement. It will give you valuable inf...

Dear colleagues and friends, As I prepare to turn a milestone in my life and retire after more than 28 wonderful years with the World Health Organization, I find myself reflecting on the incredible journey that has unfolded. I would like to express my deep gratitude to the World Health Organizatio...

The IA2030 mid-term review has just been published on the WHO website:  https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/immunization-agenda-2030--mid-term-review Here's a short summary of the document. The document provides a timely assessment of global immunization progress at the halfway poin...

Dear colleagues, I am sharing a recent article on vaccination timeliness that I found very interesting in the context of assessing immunization programme performance (in additon to, say, coverage): "Vaccination timeliness is a key measure of immunisation system performance: A call to address priori...

This is a bittersweet announcement. My boss, colleague, mentor, and friend Souleymane ('Solo') Kone, logistician extraordinaire, is retiring at the end of this month. He is far too modest to mark the event, and would likely slip quietly away into the Malian sunset if he was permitted to do so... Bu...

Join us next Monday for an exciting webinar discussing Lessons Learned from the Big Catch-up!   The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department at WHO in collaboration with local partners have conducted case studies of the BCU i...

Hello TechNet colleagues, I’m excited to share a new resource from VillageReach that highlights the critical role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in expanding equitable access to immunization services. The resource - Elevating CHWs Role in Immunization: The Key to Equita...

📢 New publication: The first global scoping review on zero-dose children since the launch of the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030)! We’re excited to share our new publication, which maps and synthesises the growing body of scientific literature on zero-dose (ZD) children (those who have not receive...

Link to register for the webinar Dear TechNet members, You are invited to join us on Tuesday, 9 September, at 10am GMT+2, for the second and final webinar in our localisation series. Following a first event titled "What to consider for local vaccine manufacturing?", this webinar will focus on...

Curious about dog bite & rabies prevention and what you can do about stopping this with a multisectoral and one health approach?  Join our webinar on 03 September 2025 03:30 PM EAT To register for the English webinar session, click here English: https://who.zoom.us/...

Dera all Contributing to techNet community after a few years, hope this may interest the viewers India is committed. Inspite of having 2nd largest population in the world; eradicated polio more than a decade ago. Through consistent interventions raised childhood vaccination coverage. While launchi...