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We're excited to announce a two-part webinar series dedicated to the Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM), the simple yet transformative tool that has helped ensure vaccine potency worldwide for three decades.
Session 1: 30 Years of VVM: A RetrospectiveJoin us for a look back at three decades of the VVM, f...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the new Implementing integrated health campaigns: decision-making and planning guide (available in English and French), which provides a practical framework to help countries assess opportunities for campaign integration and plan integrated health cam...
Gender-related barriers continue to affect equitable access to immunization services and outcomes. Addressing these barriers is essential to improving coverage, reaching zero-dose children, and ensuring that no one is left behind.
Join us on 13 October 2026 for the launch webinar of the n...
Discussions
An interview with Lisa Ganley-Leal and Pauline Mwinzi, Epsilon Therapeutics
Earlier this year, Lisa Ganley-Leal and Pauline Mwinzi were awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. They hope to demonstrate that selling vaccines ...
an interview with MIT’s UAV vaccine delivery team
Earlier this year, Dr. George Barbastathis and five graduate students—Nikhil Vadhavkar, Adam Pan, Vyas Ramanan, Andrew Warren, and Justin Lee—from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gate...
by Hamadou Modibo Dicko, Philippe Jaillard, and Benjamin Schreiber, AMP; Bruce Y. Lee, University of Pittsburgh; and Heidi Lasher, consultant to project Optimize
To improve immunization program performance, the Government of Benin is using cutting-edge modeling tools to better understand how chan...
by Kamel Senouci and Lara Gautier, AMP
Many national immunization programs rely on the professional advice of national immunization technical advisory groups (NITAGs) to help them make critical decisions on introducing new vaccines. Implemented in April 2008 by Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP)...
by Nguyen Van Cuong, NEPI, and Vu Minh Huong, PATH Earlier this year, Vietnam’s National Expanded Programme on Immunization (NEPI) conducted an Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) assessment to evaluate the country’s immunization logistics systems. The results reveal that key improvements have been ...
by Morris Gargar, Consultant; Elly Tumwine, UNICEF; and Ryan McWhorter, Logistimo The Government of the Republic of South Sudan is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and project Optimize to test a cloud-based logistics management information system (LMIS) that uses mobile phon...
Nouveau 2012 Photoshare Photo Contest
Announcing the 8th Annual 2012 Photoshare Photo Contest - a popular international event mobilizing amateur and professional photographers to share their photos for charitable and educational use.
The contest has a top prize of $1,000 USD. Deadline for Entries: December 17, 2012. Entries are accep...
Cross-posted from the GAVI CSO forum.
Dear GAVI CSO Constituency members and friends,
Civil society (defined by GAVI as non-government and community-based organisations, faith-based groups, academic institutions, professional bodies and women's initiatives) is a critical GAVI partner in immuni...
Dear Sir,
On 28 September 2012, we went to an actual waste disposal spot (in Himachal Pradesh) to vaccinate 57 rag pickers, who included women and children. Some of them were bitten by dogs many times, but could not get vaccinated due to the high costs involved.
Pre-exposu...
Nouveau Polio eradication in Afghanistan
Watch Leema, a polio volunteer, as she goes from house to house vaccinating children in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan under extremely demanding conditions. The biggest concern for the personnel is the security in the region but that doesn't deter them from doing their job.
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Dear colleagues,
Here is a rather technical question: what to do with a "non freeze-sensitive" vaccine after exposure to freezing? The ultimate objective of my question is to refine and validate operational guidance for field workers.
In the case of the "freeze-sensitive" v...
Many thanks to Mojtaba Haghgou for sharing this article with the forum. Vaccine cold chain functional inventory and gap analysis: Looking at all existing cold chain equipment at one go Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran, July 2011 By Dr. Mohsen Zahraei, EPI Manager and Mr. G. Zamani, V...
Cool Containers has developed and introduced the PharmaPort 360 container for 5C transport of vaccines and bio-pharmaceuticals. Recently UPS delivered $9 Million worth of Flu Vaccine to Laos, it was a tricky 9000 mile delivery:
http://youtu.be/p5V6f-KRWiE
Cool Containers is very interested in wo...
by Dr. Joyce Charo, DVI, Kenya and Dr. Anthony Ngatia, CHAI A web-based stock management tool has just been deployed in five regional stores across Kenya. The goal is to ensure the availability of vaccines by reducing stockouts and improving vaccine program performance. Dr. Joyce Charo from the Div...
To accompany the article “Online immunization registry transforms the work of health staff in Albania” in this month’s newsletter, project Optimize has publishedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/projectoptimize/sets/72157630314080396/" target="_blank"> a photo set on Flickr that reveals...
An interview with Silvia Bino, Albania Institute of Public Health The Institute of Public Health in Albania recently developed an online immunization registry to replace their existing paper-based system. In May 2011, the new system—named IIS—was piloted in Shkoder district. One year later, Op.ti.m...
by Dr. Nguyen Van Cuong, NEPI and Joanie Robertson, PATH Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology is collaborating with project Optimize to demonstrate the benefits of a computerized immunization registry. In January 2012, a new computerized immunization registry was piloted by Viet...
An interview with Claire Dillavou, University of California, Los Angeles
Earlier this year, Claire Dillavou of the University of California, Los Angeles was awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative*. Claire hopes to develop a...
by Raja Rao, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Earlier this year, 17 different proposals on how to optimize immunization systems were each awarded $100,000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Raja Rao gives an overview of each proposa...
by Cecily Stokes-Prindle and Lois Privor-Dumm, IVAC
It sounds like a pretty mundane question, but the answer has major implications for delivering vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. Having consulted with experts from across the world, researchers at the International Vaccine Access Cen...
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