Equitable vaccine delivery will fuel better global health processes

May 11, 2021

A health department driver washes a vaccine van before transporting the vaccine developed by Oxford/AstraZeneca to various vaccination centres from a regional vaccine store, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Koraput, India, January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "SIDDIQUI OXFORD/ASTRAZENECA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RC2SEL9A0XKB

If we seize the day and make vaccine delivery an equitable, cost-cutting, speedy operation, we can apply the model more widely to improve global health. Image: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Jonathan Jackson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi

Vikram Kumar

Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dimagi

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