Delivery of COVID-19 Booster and Paediatric Vaccines: Lessons from Malaysia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be deployed around the world, countries are now planning for and actively administering booster doses and vaccines for their paediatric populations. What has the experience been in different countries? What have been the successes and challenges?

Tim Mitchell

Tim has extensive experience in assisting clients to ensure safe, healthy compliant operations in some of the most challenging operating environments in the world. In addition to his post as CEO of FrontierMEDEX, Tim has also acted as CEO of both G4S Risk Management Ltd, and Kroll Security International, two of the world’s leading specialist security providers. Tim has overseen large-scale medical and security operations in over 50 countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and South America, and environments as remote as the Arctic and Antarctica.

Elsevier Health

Elsevier Health's mission is to empower clinicians to make better decisions, prepare future health professionals, and improve patient outcomes. They shared how they support the information need of clinicians throughout their professional journey from education (teach, learn) and diagnosis and treatment. They also presented how they collaborate with NHS.

Difrent

Difrent, in this presentation, described their healthcare organization and how they use research, data, service design, and technology to provide solutions to big and complex problems. They also provide assistance to clients through the use of effective digital solutions.

Vita Healthcare Solutions

Vita Healthcare works in partnership with the NHS to provide mental and physical health services, work with the UK’s largest companies to help support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

They also developed the only diagnostic innovation market access program globally.

Huma

Huma is a digital health company founded in 2011 that aims to create a world where every person lives their life to the fullest.

They also aim to revolutionize Life Science through digital data collection which they believe can help better manage patient care and improve outcomes.

UK-ADB Learning Exchange: The Digital Transformation of Health

Digital technologies are underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including healthcare. The UK has seen great success in digitally transforming its National Health Service (NHS) by harnessing innovations to deliver better healthcare.

COVID-19 highlighted the importance of capacitating digital health delivery, hence its urgent need by developing Asia.