Modeling Vaccine Allocations in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Australia

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

“…The authors purport that the proposed framework can help with scenario planning and assessing tradeoffs among vaccination strategies. Abbasi et al (2020) concentrated on allocation of vaccine in the downstream supply chain and proposed a model for different distribution and allocation of vaccine. Jarrett et al (2020) investigated the role of manufacturers to combat vaccine counterfeiting for implementing global traceability standards in the vaccine supply chain.…”

“…In the current scenario, a shortfall of vaccines due to failure of the vaccine supply chain (VSC) will make circumstances more confounded ( Chakraborty and Mali, 2020 ). A pandemic VSC is different than that of a traditional VSC because governments are directly procuring vaccines from the manufacturers bypassing the traditional chains of wholesalers and distributors ( Abbasi et al, 2020 ). Hence, healthcare experts and VSC analysts are looking for proper policies and adequate strategies for appropriate vaccine manufacturing and distribution to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Design of control strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic

“…A rolling horizon algorithm is used to handle the uncertainties in the daily plan of vaccination centers. Abbasi et al (2020) proposed a model to determine optimal allocation decisions in an integrated vaccine supply chain. The model aims to minimize the risk of infection, and transshipping vaccines between the centers is allowed.…”

Bi-objective optimization for a multi-period COVID-19 vaccination planning problem

“…Since then, it has been declared a pandemic and spread worldwide, heavily threatening human lives in multiple waves. COVID-19 is highly contagious compared to previous pandemics [1] , and it has dramatically hindered production in entire industries and exposed the fragility of global supply chains (SCs) [2] . It has a substantial impact on the global economy and has caused economic recession and widespread job losses [1] .…”