COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Resources
The work to safely develop and plan immunization is requiring the most complex global vaccination campaign in history.
Location intelligence is the key.
Why is GIS relevant to vaccine distribution?
Governments around the globe are distributing COVID-19 vaccinations on a massive scale—an effort that includes the hurdles of meeting subzero storage requirements, prioritizing vulnerable communities, communicating with each other and the public, and ensuring equity across countries, counties, and cities.
Clearly, the work to safely develop and plan immunization in the US and around the world is requiring the most complex global vaccination campaign in history. At the pandemic’s onset and throughout 2020, government and healthcare leaders relied on Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology for real-time visualization dashboards, data sharing, analysis, and planning. The same GIS approach is proving crucial for vaccine distribution.
Are there examples of COVID-19 vaccine distribution tools?
These sample applications interpret the CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for jurisdiction operations to understand demographics, allocate resources, select new sites in a sample region, select regions for mobile clinics, and communicate these results with the public. To implement these products in your own jurisdiction, contact the Esri Health & Human Services Team.
Deploy Vaccine Solutions in Seconds New
Esri has released two new solutions to assist your organization with COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution Dashboard can be used to tabulate, visualize, and monitor key vaccine distribution metrics and trends that support a phased COVID-19 vaccination plan. The Coronavirus Vaccine Outreach can be used to communicate vaccination plans, increase public confidence in vaccinations, and ensure the public knows when, and where, they can be vaccinated.
Step 1
Identify Facilities
Mapping the breadth of potential facilities in the vaccination process is the first step to ensuring adequate population coverage.Step 2
Prioritize Populations
Health departments will need to develop a detailed view of the various priority populations across their jurisdictions.Step 4
Manage Inventory
Healthcare providers and/or governments will need a quick and accurate data capture system.Step 5
Communicate
Early transparency will both inspire trust and provide critical information about vaccination resources.Step 1
Identify Facilities
Mapping the breadth of potential facilities in the vaccination process is the first step to ensuring adequate population coverage.Step 2
Prioritize Populations
Health departments will need to develop a detailed view of the various priority populations across their jurisdictions.Step 3
Analyze Gaps
View potential gaps and evaluate solution scenarios for mitigation.Step 4
Manage Inventory
Healthcare providers and/or governments will need a quick and accurate data capture system, as well as simple dashboards for tracking distribution metrics.Are there any videos that discuss these capabilities?
These short videos outline how GIS can be applied to support vaccine distribution efforts at global, national, and regional scales.
Managing Vaccine Inventory with Survey123
On-demand, 7 minutes
As health departments and health systems prepare to deliver COVID-19 vaccine to their communities, ArcGIS boosts a community's readiness for upcoming vaccination events by enabling simple on-site inventory tracking and overall community supply monitoring.
Local Vaccine Distribution with ArcGIS
On-demand, 6 minutes
It isn't just dashboards and visualizations. ArcGIS can support your distribution efforts by providing the tools for strategic site selection and the allocation of resources. Equally as important, Esri can offer a wide range of data from our partners and from the GIS user community.
Siting Points of Dispensing (POD) with Business Analyst
On-demand, 13 minutes
Balancing resources is a critical step during the vaccine distribution process. Using ArcGIS, users can identify the best strategy to deploy points of distribution across their region while balancing the estimated demand for each location. This methodology is especially useful when considering multiple criteria, such as accessibility, demographics, ingress and egress, vulnerability, and more.
Additional Vaccine Resources
As the COVID-19 vaccine effort progresses, new solutions, resources, and ideas are continually being identified by Esri. See below for additional blogs and press releases from Esri, including from our Chief Medical Officer.
Vaccine Coverage Analysis Solution Released
The Vaccine Coverage Analysis delivers a set of capabilities that help health and human services agencies identify priority and underserved populations, locate optimal vaccination sites, and share vaccine coverage gaps with internal and external stakeholders.
Applying Location Intelligence to COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
In Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Montana health officials used geospatial technology to centralize all key information, map vaccine sites, and analyze data to plan an efficient, equitable rollout.
The COVID-19 Delta Variant: This Map Provides Answers
The United States is experiencing the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, due to the far more infectious Delta variant of the virus.
Dr. Este Geraghty discusses GIS and COVID-19 Vaccination
Dr. Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, GISP is the Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director at Esri. Formerly the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics with the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Geraghty led the state vital records and public health informatics programs. Dr. Geraghty is also a board certified public health professional (CPH) and a Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP).
What data is available to support decision-making?
A wide range of data is available in the ArcGIS environment to support vaccine distribution decisions. This includes information from authoritative sources regarding social vulnerability, current case counts and trends, and popular demographic variables that are critical for assigning population groups.
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Interested in national-scale vaccine supply chain management?
ArcGIS can support supply chain management at any scale: regionally, nationally, or globally. Large scale vaccine distribution is covered in detail in this video. More resources on supply chain management can be found on the Esri Supply Chain Digitization landing page.
How can I get started now?
Esri is standing by to support your organization's COVID-19 efforts. For vaccine distribution, please contact the Esri Health & Human Services team.
Esri also offers ArcGIS Solutions—free and supported configurations to get existing ArcGIS users started quickly with common workflows, like creating health safety plans for facilities, sites, and campuses. This is a valuable workflow for improving the safety at COVID-19 vaccine distribution sites.
