From finding populations who are at risk to planning ahead for what vaccines will be needed where and when, artificial intelligence is helping the Vaccine Alliance reach more people.
That’s the view of Gavi CEO Sania Nishtar in an interview with CGTN Europe at Davos.
#vaccines #davos #wef
That’s the view of Gavi CEO Sania Nishtar in an interview with CGTN Europe at Davos.
#vaccines #davos #wef
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00:00AI as apps offers a lot of solutions to our scope of work. One of them is micro-planning
00:08because when we operate in countries and we roll out vaccines, there are very difficult
00:15pockets that we encounter. These are pockets where girls don't go to school, where kids don't get
00:19vaccinated, where there's an intensity of poverty and squalor, and it is difficult to pinpoint those
00:29locations at times. And AI, in fact, we've done some pilots which have given us very promising
00:36results because with the use of different data sets and by appropriately triangulating them,
00:42you can pinpoint and micro-plan intervention in these different difficult locations. So that's
00:48one very important, for lack of a better expression, use case that we've identified,
00:54piloted and now scaling up the intervention. The second important, again, I'd say use case is
01:03demand forecasting. As an entity whose mandate is to facilitate access to vaccines,
01:12we want to forecast demand because we want to budget appropriately. And AI tools give very
01:19good information as far as demand forecasting is concerned. Then, of course, supply chain
01:23optimization because we have a supply chain operation which starts from the manufacturing
01:27facility and ends in the last mile warehouse. And AI provides some very cogent solutions in that
01:36space as well. And there are many other examples of where we've already piloted and where we're
01:42upscaling our interventions.