Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability in Vaccination Logistics: Global Supply Chain Experiences and Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccination
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 6278
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Interests: digital production, retail and logistics operations; sustainability in global supply chains; qualification and knowledge management in logistics; efficiency measurement/data envelopment analysis; artificial intelligence and human-computer-interaction (HCI)
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Interests: digital production systems; assembly line design; urban logistics; healthcare processes optimization; environmental impact; social fairness
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Interests: optimization; operations management; logistics; risk management; supply chain management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is a large economic, societal and also environmental challenge. This Special Issue collects contributions from different disciplines due to the complex challenges associated with the vaccination campaign: Economics and business administration, engineering, computer science, political and social science are supported in joining the discussion. Different steps, such as efficient and rapid vaccine production, storage, distribution and final administration of different types with the included physical as well as information flows and coordination are within the scope of the papers included. The overarching research question is how logistics and supply chain management concepts could contribute to a successful vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in order to support a global way out of the pandemic.
This Special Issue will include extended versions of selected papers from Vaccination Supply Chains – Summer School Science Workshop 2021, along with general papers closely related to the workshop themes. The science workshop is addressing all issues connected to vaccination in the global COVID-19 pandemic from different analysis and science discipline perspectives (Gramacho & Turgeon, 2021). Different required steps such as the efficient and rapid vaccine production, storage, distribution and final administration of different types with the included physical material as well as information flows and coordination are within the scope of the event (ElBagoury et al., 2021; Fisk, 2021). Similarly, societal impacts in all variations are addressed and discussed. Scholars and students in the fields of public health, political and social sciences, economics, engineering and management science as well as medical and psychology disciplines are invited to participate in presence or digital formats (hybrid) and contribute towards a global discussion towards vaccination campaigns. For more information, please see [link]
References:
Gramacho, W. G., Turgeon, M. (2021). When politics collides with public health: COVID-19 vaccine country of origin and vaccination acceptance in Brazil. Vaccine, 39(19), 2608-2612.
ElBagoury, M., Tolba, M. M., Nasser, H. A., Jabbar, A., & Hutchinson, A. (2021). The find of COVID-19 vaccine: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of infection and public health, 14(3), 389-416.
Fisk, R. J. (2021). Barriers to vaccination for COVID-19 control—experience from the United States. Global Health Journal, 5(1), 51-55.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Klumpp
Prof. Dr. Francesco Pilati
Prof. Dr. Robert De Souza
Prof. Dr. Ali Asgary
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Vaccination
- COVID-19
- Sustainability
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
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