Local, Modular Facilities Make Access to Vaccines More Equitable

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Vaccines are vital to public health, particularly during disease outbreaks. But as COVID-19 illustrated, centralized manufacturing systems struggle to ensure equitable access to jobs when demand suddenly increases.

Localizing production using modular facilities is a potential solution, says Seyed Soheil Mansouri, PhD, an associate professor of biochemical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, who looked at factors impacting access to vaccines in a new study.