Health Supply Chain Tools and Resources
Templates and Tools
TEMPLATE - Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring Chart
Sites and Resources
- Approved essential medicines per country
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
- DG ECHO - Review of quality assurance (QA) mechanisms for medicines and medical supplies in humanitarian aid
- ICRC - Medical Waste Management Guidelines
- Immunizationacademy.com
- JSI - Guidelines for the Storage of Essential Medicines and other Health Commodities
- MSF - Cold Chain Evaluation
- PATH - Total Cost of Ownership Tool for Cold Chain Equipment
- PATH / WHO - Delivering Vaccines: A Cost Comparison of In-Country Vaccine Transport Container Options
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- Technical Network for Strengthening Immunization Services
- USAID - Logistics Handbook, A Practical Guide for the Supply Chain Management of Health Commodities
- UNICEF - Cold Chain Technical Support
- UNICEF / WHO - Effective Vaccine Store Management Initiative
- UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines for Walk-In Cold Rooms And Freezer Rooms
- UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Compression System Refrigerators and Freezers
- UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Solar Direct Drive Refrigerators and Freezers
- UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Temperature Monitoring Devices
- UNICEF - Procurement Guidelines, Vaccine Carriers and Cold Boxes
- UNICEF / WHO - Decommissioning and Safe Disposal of Cold Chain Equipment
- WFP Logistics Cluster - Downstream Logistics in Pandemics
- WHO - Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) model standard operating procedures
- WHO - Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical PreparationsWHO - Interagency Emergency Health Kit
- WHO - Guidelines on the International Packaging and Shipping of Vaccines
- WHO - Guideline For Establishing Or Improving Primary And Intermediate Vaccine Stores
- WHO - Guidelines for Medicine Donations
- WHO - Guidance on Regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances
- WHO - How to Monitor Temperatures in the Vaccine Supply Chain
- WHO - How to calculate vaccine volumes and cold chain capacity requirements
- WHO - How to use passive containers and coolant-packs, 2015
- WHO - Introducing Solar-powered Vaccine Refrigerator and Freezer Systems, A Guide for Managers in National Immunization Programmes
- WHO - Immunization in practice: A practical guide for health staff. Geneva
- WHO - Model List of Essential Medicines
- WHO - Performance, Quality and Safety (PQS)
- WHO - Safe Disposal of Unwanted Pharmaceuticals
- WHO - Safe Management of Wastes from Health‑Care Activities
- WHO - Solar direct-drive vaccine refrigerators and freezers
- WHO - Selection of Essential Medicines at Country Level
- WHO - Study protocol for temperature monitoring in the vaccine cold chain
- WHO - Supplement 01 - Selecting sites for storage facilities - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 02 - Design of storage facilities - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 03 - Estimating the capacity of storage facilities - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 04 - Security and fire protection in storage facilities - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 05 - Maintenance of storage facilities - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 06 - Temperature and Humidity Monitoring Systems for Fixed Storage Areas - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 07 - Qualification of Temperature-controlled Storage Areas - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 08 - Temperature Mapping of Storage Areas - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 09 - Refrigeration equipment maintenance - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 10 - Checking the accuracy of temperature control and monitoring devices - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 11 - Qualification of refrigerated road vehicles - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 12 - Temperature-controlled Transport Operations by Road and by Air - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 13 - Qualification of shipping containers - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 14 - Transport route profiling qualification - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 15 - Temperature and humidity monitoring systems for transport operations - May 2015
- WHO - Supplement 16 - Environmental management of refrigerant gases and refrigeration equipment - May 2015
- WHO - Thermostability of vaccines
- WHO - User’s handbook for vaccine cold rooms and freezer rooms