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he World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB), Quality, Safety and Standards (QSS) team support countries and vaccine manufacturers to strengthen and expand capacities in vaccine regulation. Along with this support, WHO/IVB/QSS manages a Global Training Network on Vaccine Quality (GTN/VQ) through its accredited training centres and delivers various training courses.
Pharmaceutical cold chain management on wheels is a new WHO and Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) training course offered in association with Tip Kurumu (Medical Society - Turkey), Cool Chain Association, DHL, Pfizer, Selçuk Ecza Deposu (Selçuk Warehouse Pharmaceuticals), Hacettepe University Hospitals, Turkish Pharmacists' Association and the Ministry of Health of Turkey. 2008 course will take place in
Primary target audience
· Representatives from the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical/vaccine industry in the areas of: Supply, packaging, distribution, logistics and cold chain management. Manufacturers who already supply WHO prequalified products are encouraged to participate.
· Representatives from the equipment and device manufacturing industry in the areas of: Active cooling, passive cooling, temperature monitoring, and track and trace. Manufacturers who already supply WHO PQS prequalified products, or who wish to enter this market, are encouraged to participate.
· Representatives from logistics providers.
Secondary target audience
· Representatives from the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical/vaccine industry in the areas of: R&D, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing.
· Representatives from the government sector including military services involved in pharmaceutical cold chain in the areas of: regulation, inspection, planning and monitoring.
· Representatives from WHO, UNICEF and other partner organizations: Technical officers responsible for pharmaceutical cold chain management activities at regional level, intercountry logisticians, health officers, EPI officers, and immunization advisers whose involvement in pharmaceutical cold chain is confirmed by their organizations.
· Members of the faculty of institutions of higher education in health professions.
· Independent consultants
APPLICATIONS and SELECTION PROCESS
Representatives falling into above mentioned primary and secondary target audiences should apply directly to GTN/VQ secretariat with the attached GTN/VQ application form. Applicants should send their applications along with their CVs to the following addresses:
Dr Ümit Kartoğlu kartogluu@who.int and Ms Sinéad Jones jonessi@who.int by email or +41227914384 by fax.
Deadline for application is 15 April 2008. Following this date, all applications will be evaluated by the WHO GTN/VQ secretariat and acceptance letters will be sent the following week.
You can link directly to the WHO website and the applicable documents below for further details.
