Accelerating Equitable Vaccine Coverage through Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
In sub-Saharan Africa, vaccination is crucial for child survival and health system resilience, yet territorial disparities and unequal access persist. Compounding these issues is a dangerous “operational disconnect” driven by outdated planning methods:
As governments increasingly invest in digital transformation, it is essential that these innovations serve the goal of equity. Digital solutions and artificial intelligence offer a unique opportunity to bridge these gaps, making vaccination more targeted, efficient, and inclusive through improved data analysis and strategic planning.
Vacci360 is a digital decision-support platform designed to automate and optimize vaccination micro-planning activities. Rather than replacing existing national processes, Vacci360 serves as a complementary analytical layer that integrates with national health information systems (such as DHIS2). Our core objectives are:
Turn complex health and geographic data into faster, more coherent operational decisions anchored in field reality.
Reach zero-dose children and mobile communities through precise, data-driven planning and dynamic tracking.
Balance maximum vaccination coverage against minimum operational cost through realistic, automated scenario planning.
The Vacci360 approach is built on a pragmatic integration of three core pillars
Factoring in real-world geographic constraints, such as travel distances and seasonal accessibility, to define accurate service areas.
Leveraging and cross-referencing existing national health information systems with broader environmental datasets on mobility, infrastructure, and climate.
Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to synthesize complex data and simulate realistic scenarios, empowering human-led arbitration.
We map real-world geographic constraints by integrating various travel modes and seasonal changes. This helps health systems analyze accessibility and identify communities that are frequently bypassed or remain unmapped.
We cross-reference traditional health data with environmental and mobility insights. By utilizing innovative proxies, such as pastoral mobility patterns, the platform can detect human presence and identify targeted vaccination opportunities for nomadic or highly mobile communities.
The platform automates the generation of realistic, actionable operational plans. It empowers health planners to easily simulate various scenarios, ensuring an optimal balance between maximum coverag
Leveraging AI as an intuitive tool, we provide a conversational assistant that allows users to query complex datasets in plain language. This simplifies data interaction, helps verify plan feasibility, and guides strategic health investments.
The generation of realistic, automated vaccination plans anchored in precise field data, geographic realities, and community feedback, effectively reducing the administrative burden on health workers.
Measurable improvements in vaccination rates across target regions, directly impacting zero-dose children and historically marginalized mobile populations.
Maximized health impact and operational efficiency by simulating various deployment scenarios to perfectly balance maximum coverage with minimum cost.
Building local confidence and participation through highly targeted, ethically managed interventions.
The long-term institutionalization of digital innovations within existing national health strategies and monitoring systems, such as DHIS2, to strengthen overall public health infrastructure.
The creation of a highly adaptable, replicable model for digital health innovation that can be seamlessly scaled and deployed across diverse contexts in West and Central Africa.
Vacci360 is a digital decision-support platform that automates and optimizes vaccination micro-planning — acting as a complementary analytical layer on top of DHIS2, turning data into faster, more equitable operational decisions.
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Nancy Akpo
Communication Intern
Nancy AKPO is a Communication & Development Intern at the Community Innovation Hub, where she supports content creation, digital presence, and funding opportunity research across the organization's programs.
Her work combines digital communication and development strategy. She contributes to building CIH's editorial presence across platforms, producing content that makes the organization's impact visible and accessible, while also supporting the identification of funding opportunities aligned with CIH's mission.
El Hadji Malick Niang
Technology & Innovation Intern
El Hadji Malick NIANG is a Developer Intern in Technology and Innovation at the Community Innovation Hub, where he supports the design, prototyping, and technical exploration of digital tools for community-focused programs.
His internship work combines software development, automation, data structuring, and applied research. He contributes to building and testing practical solutions such as dashboards, scripts, technical prototypes, and analytical models, while also helping assess how digital tools can support areas like community health, agriculture, inclusion, and local development.
Fatoumata Bakhoum Samb
Administrative and Financial Manager
Fatoumata BAKHOUM SAMB is a Senegalese professional specialized in administrative, accounting, and financial management, holding a degree in Accounting and Finance from ESUP Dakar. She has over ten years of experience in accounting supervision, budget management, and treasury management, gained within consulting firms and private companies.
After beginning her career at Sigma – Cabinet de Conseils Comptables et Fiscaux, where she progressed from Accounting Assistant to Administrative and Tax Manager, she joined Fideo Holding in 2019. There she successively held the positions of Accountant and then Administrative, Accounting and Financial Manager, overseeing teams, managing client and supplier portfolios, handling tax and social compliance, and implementing financial procedures and internal audits.
Her expertise expanded into the renewable energy sector when she joined Coseer Energy as Administrative and Financial Manager (RAF). There she contributed to the financial and administrative structuring of projects linked to the energy transition, strengthening her profile in a sector that is strategic for sustainable development.
She serves as Administrative and Financial Manager (RAF), actively contributing to the implementation of transparent management systems and to the support of community projects focused on inclusion, education, and innovation.
Versatile and rigorous, she is proficient with tools such as Sage Saari 100, Odoo, QuickBooks, and the Office Suite, as well as modern methods of document management and budget tracking. Her career reflects an ability to move between the private sector, renewable energy, and social innovation, while keeping one constant: the pursuit of efficiency and transparency in financial and administrative management.
Outside of work, she enjoys family outings and shopping in her free time.
Steve Charvet
Technology and Innovation Manager
Steve CHARVET is Technology and Innovation Manager at the Community Innovation Hub, where he oversees the development of technological tools, serves as the interface between external technical teams and CIH across all ongoing projects, and contributes to the organization's digital strategy.
With a background at the crossroads of technology and development, he brings expertise in geographic information systems, applied artificial intelligence, and the design of digital tools built for resource-limited contexts. His approach is straightforward: put technology at the service of people, not the other way around.
At CIH, Steve coordinates the deployment of technology platforms across a wide range of areas, including community health, agriculture,and projects that supports gender equity. He also manages the organization's internal monitoring and funding tracking systems, and contributes to identifying partnership opportunities to grow the program portfolio.
Before entering the development sector, Steve worked as a composer in France in the late 1990s, at a time when the music industry was undergoing a profound transformation, just as digital technology was beginning to reshape the way sound was created and shared. That chapter left him with a conviction he still carries today: the most powerful technologies are those that amplify what people have to express at their best.
Sylvia Dooper
Partnerships and Development Officer
Sylvia DOOPER is the Strategic Partnerships and Development Officer at Community Innovation Hub, where she works alongside the Executive Director to drive the organization's resource mobilization, project design, and strategic alliance building.
With a solid background in international development, diplomacy, governance, and partnership building, she has worked across issues ranging from local governance and higher education to global health, advocacy, and regional development. Her work is rooted in connecting people, ideas, and resources to champion locally led solutions and create sustainable, long-term impact through meaningful collaboration.
At CIH, Sylvia focuses on identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, developing high-impact concept notes, and designing funding proposals across health, climate resilience, agriculture, education and inclusive governance.
Sylvia holds a Bachelor's degree in International Development Studies from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Lund University in Sweden, and a Master's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from Antwerp University in Belgium. She has gained experience at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, VNG International, The ONE Campaign, and GDI Advisors.
Outside of work, Sylvia is passionate about sports. She thrives on challenges that require discipline, resilience, and continuous improvement, qualities she seamlessly brings into her professional life.
Assiatou Kama Niang
Executive Director
Assiatou KAMA NIANG is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Community Innovation Hub, where she leads the organization's strategic direction, partnerships, resource mobilization and program development across Africa.
With more than a decade of experience in public health, public policy, gender equity and community engagement, she has worked across research, policy analysis, partnership development and multi-country program management. Her work is rooted in translating evidence, technology and local knowledge into practical solutions that respond to community priorities.
At CIH, Assiatou provides strategic leadership for the organization's growth across health, climate resilience, agriculture, education and inclusive governance. She guides the development of CIH's program portfolio, cultivates institutional and technical partnerships, leads resource mobilization efforts and ensures that the organization's work remains grounded in locally led, evidence-informed innovation.
Assiatou holds a Bachelor's degree in Exercise and Sport Science from Oregon State University, a Master's degree in Health Promotion Management, and a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy Analysis from American University in Washington, D.C.
Outside of work, she enjoys family time, good food and making space for rest and relaxation, especially well-deserved spa days.