Solving the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Challenge

Jean-Cedric Meeus, the Chief of Global Transport at UNICEF. UNICEF plays a KEY role in ensuring that low income countries get access to vaccines and medicines.

This episode features Derek Wallace. Derek is the VP and Global Dengue Program head at Takeda.

This episode features Jaimie Shaffs. Jamie Shaffs is the Chief Data Scientist of the New York department of Health and Mental Hygiene as well as a member of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Task Force.

This episode features Niels van Namen, who is an experienced Healthcare supply chain professional, entrepreneur and TED speaker.

This episode features Bill Keough, Director of the Institute for Supply Chain Development (ISCD), which provides leading-edge supply chain training for health professionals working in low-resource environments.

This episode features Craig Fuller, Founder & CEO, FreightWaves. FreightWaves is the leading publication in freight and brings data and analytics to the global $9.6tn industry.

This episode features Peter Marks, Director, Director Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food & Drugs Administration. We’ve asked Peter some really important questions around how FDA has been giving vaccine approval at record speed.

This episode features Carlo de Notaristefani, Lead Advisor Manufacturing & Supply Chain at Operation Warp Speed.Operation Warp Speed is a public–private partnership initiated by the US government to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

This episode features Adarsh Kumar, CEO of TagBox.TagBox helps support track & trace for critical supply chains through the use of IoT sensing. The sensors they use have been developed in-house and are merely the size of a matchbox.

This episode features Katrina Liddell, President Global Forwarding & Expedite, XPO Logistics. XPO is one of those unique providers that assist in vaccine deployment throughout the supply chain – right from the first mile to the last mile and so they bring a very well rounded and end to end perspective.

This episode features Cimarron Buser, Founder and CEO of The Appointment Scheduling & Booking Industry Association (TASBIA). Cimarron is an industry expert, and represents providers of appointment scheduling solutions. He appreciates the value--and the challenges--of using technology to help individuals schedule Covid-19 vaccination appointments.

This episode features Julie Copeland, CEO of Arbill. They have been protecting workers for 75 years, focuses on saving lives every day through an array of PPE products including: hand protection, eye protection and disposable clothing and independently-tested cloth face masks.

This episode features Catherine Cooper - President & CEO of World Connections. They discuss effect of the pandemic on how boardrooms think about the need for resilient supply chains in the future.

This episode features Gary Newbury - an Interim Executive and a Last Mile Expert in Canada.With different pharma companies rolling out their respective vaccines consisting of various types of storage requirements, we talk to Gary about the developments in this space from a vaccine distribution.

This episode features Sid Chakravarthy, CEO & Founder of StaTwig. StaTwig leverages emerging technologies such as blockchain, Internet of Things and AI to create traceability of every single vial of vaccine along its journey.

We change gears in this episode and talk to Jim about how the pandemic is going to affect global supply chains of the future. This episode of The Vaccine Challenge features Jim Tompkins, Founder and Chairman of Tompkins International

With different pharma companies rolling out their respective vaccines consisting of various types of storage requirements, we talk to Markus about the developments in this space from a vaccine distribution perspective and how DHL is contributing to this mega task.

Frank explains how UPS with other competition already knew the need for the healthcare industry and how logistics companies are handling the situation of post-pandemic demand. They follow up on their discussion of the logistics aspect of the circumstances.