The Global Health Delivery Project
Our mission is to improve the health of people everywhere by supporting clinicians at the frontlines to make better decisions and deliver value-based health care using proven approaches and evidence.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Division of Global Health Equity
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Vaccine Delivery
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of robust and adaptive health systems. Leaders needed to plan and upgrade their strategies regularly so care could be delivered quickly, scaled, and adjusted as supply and demand shifted over time.
During the pandemic, we supported health officials and decision makers by creating tools to help them allocate, distribute, verify, and generate demand for vaccines. The team collaborated with the Center for Global Development to build an interactive web tool to generate predictions on the COVID-19 portfolio in real-time and co-developed the Vaccine Allocation Planner with Surgo Ventures to visualize equitable vaccine delivery. We built a Vaccine Equity Planner with Google and Boston Children’s Hospital to identify “vaccine deserts,” places where people have little or no convenient access to vaccination, and potential new vaccination sites to address the gaps. We updated the tool regularly with new data as vaccination guidelines changed until July 2024.
The team also served on the CONVINCE (COVID-19 New Vaccine Information, Communication, and Engagement) coalition, building the communication and demand generation infrastructure to increase global vaccine confidence, inform media, and connect stakeholders around the globe.
The Vaccine Equity Planner is fantastic. Having this level of detail will make my job much faster and easier, enabling us to get more vaccines into arms more quickly.
Former Medical Director, Department of Health
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Vaccine Equity Planner
See where there were COVID-19 “vaccine deserts” and potential vaccination sites to address the gaps.