Join us to explore lessons learned and opportunities emerging from digital health investments made to support COVID-19 vaccination service delivery in low and middle-income countries. This webinar will include insights from countries on adapting and deploying digital solutions for COVID-19 vaccination efforts, and will introduce a tool to support stakeholders in adapting and scaling digital solutions for routine immunization efforts as well as emergency responses. 

Event Description: Adapting and scaling existing digital systems to handle emerging demands is a strategy that can help ensure emergency-era digital health investments serve both short and long-term health system needs. However, there are many competing priorities countries weigh when implementing digital health solutions–especially in emergency contexts–and adaptation is an ongoing and evolving process.  

This webinar will take stock of digital health investments made to support COVID-19 vaccination service delivery, exploring successes, challenges, and future plans for digital systems. The webinar will highlight experiences from Kenya and Sri Lanka, and offer insights that can be useful in the face of future health threats. The webinar will also mark the launch of the Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) Primer on Digital Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccination Service Delivery. The Primer was originally designed as an easy-to-use cheat sheet to help stakeholders engaged in COVID-19 vaccination efforts leverage data and digital health tools, while addressing long-term sustainability challenges. DICE is publishing the resource now, as its applicability extends beyond the circumstances that prompted its creation, to future pandemic threat preparedness, resilient health systems, and ongoing COVID-19 and routine immunization efforts.

We invite you to join us on April 13, 2023, at 9:30am ET / 4:30pm EAT to discuss: 

• How our collective learning about deploying digital health solutions during COVID-19 can inform and improve work for routine immunization, and future health emergencies.

• The adapt and scale approach, including the challenges to adaptation that countries faced, and what enabling environment factors can support future success.

• How Ministries of Health now bridge parallel routine immunization digital platforms with those created during the pandemic to capture only COVID-19 data, including approaches to data migration, country ownership and sustainability.

Panelists: 

Moderator: Sean Blaschke, Senior Health Specialist, UNICEF

Dr. Pamod Amarakoon, Lead and a Senior Information System Implementer from HISP Sri Lanka

Dr. Joseph Sitienei, Acting Head, Directorate of Health Policy, Research, M and E, Kenya Ministry of Health

Amarynth Sichel, Digital Health Advisor, USAID contractor

Register here: https://path.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcuugqT8oG9SIjRkzIJP3VmTo3jVwNfe1