Summary: Software and Global Health:
Understanding the Vaccine Cold
Chain
Richard Anderson
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering
University of Washington
What this talk is about
· The development and deployment of software
for evaluating the vaccine cold chains
developing countries
­ Software has been used in four African countries
to analyze recently completed cold chain
inventories
· Bigger issues
­ Use of information in supporting health systems
­ Introduction and sustainability of technology
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Three themes
1. Implications of inventory based cold chain

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences