Bluesquare’s Data-Driven Solutions for Global Polio Eradication

Polio eradication remains one of the most ambitious public health objectives in modern history. Despite remarkable progress, achieving and sustaining eradication demands innovative digital solutions, timely data, and strong partnerships. Since 2021, Bluesquare has been proud to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in enhancing data systems and visualizations that make every outbreak response smarter, faster, and more efficient. In honor of World Polio Day, we highlight some of these tools within the Polio Outbreaks initiative to exemplify how digital solutions and partnerships can accelerate progress towards a polio-free world. 

From Fragmented Data to Integrated Decision-Making

At the start of our engagement, polio outbreak response data existed in silos. Information about virus detection, planning, vaccine stocks, and campaign results was scattered across multiple systems, making it difficult for teams to see the full picture and make timely, evidence-based decisions.To bridge this gap, Bluesquare developed an integrated digital ecosystem using the advanced capabilities of IASO to streamline data integration and visualization to connect all steps of a polio-campaign lifecycle together. 

Let’s take a closer look at some of the platform’s highlights and how they help centralize essential data for GPEI teams across the world. 

• Campaign Entry: Every Polio campaign starts with careful planning, where WHO teams can enter upcoming campaigns into the platform, detailing information including round dates, vaccine types, geographic scope, and associated subactivities. Information is centralized on this module, allowing all partners to be aligned ahead of campaigns. 

• Calendar Visualization: Once campaign data is entered, it is pulled on the platform’s interactive campaign calendar, made public on WHO’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) website. This visualization offers stakeholders a thorough understanding of when and where upcoming immunization activities will be taking place, what kind of vaccines will be administered, and download associated scopes – strengthening coordination and information sharing of global teams involved. 

Poliooutbreaks platform, used by the WHO AFRO RRT team and GPEI coordinators. This is the public calendar deciphering upcoming Polio campaigns, including details such as scope, vaccine type, and target age groups. 

• Preparedness Sheets & Dashboard: Ahead of a campaign, GPEI teams are able to lock in real-time snapshots of campaign readiness across countries and readiness through the platform. Key steps – such as staff training and logistics arrangements – are tracked daily, allowing teams to identify gaps ahead of a campaign start date. Data is pulled into the public Preparedness Dashboard, which consolidates information into a single dashboard. Global teams can ensure that all necessary preparations are completed on time to prevent delays and resource shortages, improving overall efficiency and reliability of polio outbreak responses. 

Preparedness Dashboard indicating campaign preparedness levels ahead of the start date. 

• Supply Chain and Stock Management: Effective vaccination campaigns rest on having the right resources in the right place at the right time. The platform’s vaccine management module provides real-time monitoring of vaccine availability, consumption and distribution. This allows teams to respond quickly to shortages and optimize resource allocation. 

• Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS): After a campaign takes place, the platform integrates LQAS results to assess coverage according to set thresholds, and identify areas where vaccination may have fallen short. Global teams can highlight gaps and underlying causes, contributing to decisions on the need for supplementary immunization activities.

LQAS Results: allows users to understand the results of a LQAS survey after a polio campaign has occurred, visualized on a map on the AFRO region or at country/district level.

Driving Efficient Public Health Responses

The journey toward Polio eradication is not over. The final challenge—reaching “zero-dose” children in the most high-risk geographies will require advanced, geo-enabled microplanning and better use of data.

The tools developed for polio campaigns are not limited to a single disease—they can be adapted to strengthen a wide range of vaccination and public health efforts. The platform has already been expanded to support campaigns for measles, yellow fever, and vitamin A supplementation, demonstrating how integrated digital solutions can improve planning, monitoring, and evaluation across diverse health initiatives. By applying these tools more broadly, health organizations can ensure that data is managed more efficiently, decisions are better informed, and resources are deployed where they are needed most.

Polio eradication requires more than vaccines—it requires visibility, coordination, and inclusion. Bluesquare’s commitment to open, interoperable, and equitable data systems helps ensure that no child is left behind. Together with the GPEI partners, we continue to transform data into action, supporting a polio-free future through smarter digital health.