Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Volume 13 Issue 2 , Open Access

Guest editorial: Vaccine supply in perspective: from end-to-end supply chains to full-fledged immunization systems

Nico Vandaele, Catherine Decouttere

A two-regime analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process

Sharika J. Hegde, Hani Mahmassani, Karen Smilowitz

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to evaluate and assess the performance of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process that is sensitive to the unique supply-side…

Covid 19 vaccine order allocation: an optimization model with substitution

Ilkan Sarigol, Rifat Gurcan Ozdemir, Erkan Bayraktar

This paper focuses on multi-objective order allocation with product substitution for the vaccine supply chain under uncertainty.

Vaccine network design to maximize immunization coverage

Jarrod Goentzel, Timothy Russell, Henrique Ribeiro Carretti, Yuto Hashimoto

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to consider how to reach vulnerable communities with extended outreach services to improve vaccination uptake. The authors created an…

Enhancing the environmental sustainability of emergency humanitarian medical cold chains with renewable energy sources

Sonja Saari

Emergency humanitarian medical cold chains (HMCCs) depend heavily on their supporting energy services due to end-to-end temperature requirements in volatile disaster situations…

A LAG-based framework to overcome the challenges of the sustainable vaccine supply chain: an integrated BWM–MARCOS approach

Amit Kumar Yadav, Dinesh Kumar

Each individual needs to be vaccinated to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the shortest possible time. However, the vaccine distribution with an already strained…

Investigating sustainable development for the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: a structural equation modelling approach

Subhodeep Mukherjee, Manish Mohan Baral, Venkataiah Chittipaka, Surya Kant Pal, Ramji Nagariya

Immunization is one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives while promoting good health and happiness. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has served as a stark…

Modeling a closed-loop vaccine supply chain with transshipments to minimize wastage and threats to the public: a system dynamics approach

Esen Andiç-Mortan, Cigdem Gonul Kochan

This study aims to focus on building a conceptual closed-loop vaccine supply chain (CLVSC) to decrease vaccine wastage and counterfeit/fake vaccines.