Health technologies : Vaccine technologies : Project Optimize
Global-level resources
Project Optimize—a collaboration between the World Health Organization and PATH with financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—created this page as a vaccine supply chain resource and to show the overall work being done by Optimize at the global level. This page includes information on vaccine vial monitors, remote temperature monitoring systems, solar technologies, and intradermal delivery of vaccines.
- Advocacy
- Cold chain technologies
- Controlled temperature supply chain
- Effective vaccine management assessment and planning tool
- Information systems
- Outsourcing supply chain functions
- Supply chain structures
- Vaccine and delivery technologies
- Outside resources
Advocacy
- 2009 to 2012 Optimize Strategy
- Achieving the Global Vision for Future Immunization Supply and Logistics Systems: Action Plans
- Developing a Vision for Immunization Supply Systems in 2020 Landscape Analysis Summaries
- Immunization Logistics and Supply Systems: From Vision to Action
- New approaches to immunization logistics [Global Health Magazine article]
- Optimize: Immunization Systems and Technologies for Tomorrow [brochure]
Cold chain technologies
- Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring in Vietnam: Monitoring Ambient and Cold Chain Temperatures During Delivery of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
- Cool Innovations for Vaccine Transportation and Storage
- Harnessing solar energy for health needs [fact sheet]
- Landscape Analysis: Cool Chain Technologies
- Temperature monitoring for vaccine quality [fact sheet]
Controlled temperature supply chain
- Designing vaccines for developing-country populations: ideal attributes, delivery devices, and presentation formats
- Taking advantage of the true heat stability of vaccines [fact sheet]
- Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM) Availability and Use in the African, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asian, and Western Pacific Regions
- Vaccine vial monitors: faqs [fact sheet]
Effective vaccine management assessment and planning tool
- Building next-generation vaccine supply systems: supply chain modeling and optimization [fact sheet]
- Keeping Track of Vietnam’s Vaccines
- Landscape Analysis: Analysis of EVSM Indicators
- Optimize Vietnam Phase I Summary Report: Evaluating the Vaccine Supply Chain in Preparation for Demonstrating Future Options in Vietnam
- Optimize Vietnam Summary Report
Information systems
- Albania: demonstrating the benefits of an online immunization registry [fact sheet]
- Assessment of a remote alarm system for vaccine storage in Albania
- An integrated approach to health information systems in Guatemala [fact sheet]
- Mobile phones bring online immunization registries to low‐resource countries [fact sheet]
- Point of service data to drive vaccine supply chains [fact sheet]
- Temperature Recording System in National Vaccine Stores Khartoum, Sudan, and Tehran, Iran
- Use of Vaccines Outside of the Cold Chain
- Vietnam: Bringing innovation to immunization supply systems [fact sheet]
Outsourcing supply chain functions
- Outsourcing the Vaccine Supply Chain and Logistics System to the Private Sector: The Western Cape Experience in South Africa
- Outsourcing Vaccine Supply Chain and Logistics to the Private Sector [evidence brief]
- Vaccine and Supply Chain Logistics in Thailand
- Vaccine Regional Distribution Center Cost Assessment
Supply chain structures
- Assessment of the Vaccine Supply Chain for Fee-Based Immunization in Hanoi Capital and Ho Chi Minh City
- Collaborating with countries to improve supply chains [fact sheet]
- Improving Vaccine Delivery Through Moving Warehouses
- A Review of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project
- Senegal: integrating and streamlining health supply chains [fact sheet]
- Supply chain integration [fact sheet]
- Tunisia: Demonstrating innovative health supply chain solutions [fact sheet]
Vaccine and delivery technologies
- Assessing the potency of oral polio vaccine kept outside of the cold chain during a national immunization campaign in Chad [Science Direct article]
- Breakeven Analysis for Various Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Presentations in Vietnam and Uganda
- Intradermal Delivery of Vaccines: A Review of the Literature and the Potential for Development for Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Intradermal delivery of vaccines: current status, potential benefits, and future challenges [WHO bulletin]
- Landscape Analysis: Trends in Vaccine Availability and Novel Vaccine Delivery Technologies: 2008–2025
- Monitoring Ambient and Cold Chain Temperatures During Delivery of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Vietnam and Uganda
- Monitoring Ambient Temperatures Experienced During Delivery of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Uganda
- Pull Mechanisms for Value-Added Technologies for Vaccines: An Evaluation of the Issues Influencing Vaccine Producer Willingness to Advance, Adopt, and Commercialize Value-Added Technologies for Vaccines for Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Country Markets
- Results From a Survey of Immunization Stakeholders in Vietnam Regarding the Presentation, Packaging, and Distribution of Human Papillomavirus Vaccines
- Using oral polio vaccine beyond the cold chain: a feasibility study conducted during the national immunization campaign in Mali [Science Direct article]
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