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Powering Healthcare Knowledge Hub

The COVID-19 crisis has punctuated the critical role of electricity for powering medical services. Healthcare facilities rely on adequate, reliable electricity to treat patients effectively. We have compiled resources and data that will support collaboration between the energy and healthcare sectors to deliver power when and where it is needed.

SEforALL resources

health

Data analysis

11 May 2022

Chilling Prospects 2022: Advancing health facility electrification
Tracking cold chain performance

Data analysis

09 May 2022

Chilling Prospects 2022: Protecting medicines and vaccines through data analytics across the cold chain
Doctor in Kenya

Data analysis

03 May 2022

Chilling Prospects 2022: Expanding the vaccine cold chain in Kenya through innovative cooling solutions
PHC Map

Data analysis

25 Apr 2022

Powering Healthcare Intervention Heatmap
PHC database

Data analysis

25 Apr 2022

Powering Healthcare Intervention Database
roadmap Nigeria

Case study

29 Mar 2022

Powering Healthcare Nigeria Market Assessment and Roadmap
healthcare factsheet

Case study

15 Mar 2022

Powering Healthcare Impact Factsheet
Knowledge brief cover

Knowledge brief

02 Dec 2021

From Procurement to Performance: Towards a private sector-led, service-based model to scale up sustainable electrification of public institutions

General background

Access to Modern Energy Services for Health Facilities in Resources Constrained Settings

WHO, 2015

Modern Energy Access and Health

SEAR, 2017

Data and energy demand

Innovative Project and Financing Solutions for Powering Health

Shell Foundation, Odyssey Powering Health Platform

Planning for COVID-19 in developing countries using earth observation and data analytics

TFE Energy/Village Data Analytics, 2020

A spatial database of health facilities managed by the public health sector in sub Saharan Africa

Nature Scientific Data, 2019

Oxygen concentrators - Market research

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Solar powered ventilators in the context of COVID-19

SELCO Foundation, 2020

System design, planning and implementation

Medical Equipment & Clinic Electrification

Efficiency for Access Coalition, 2021

Best Practices for Electrifying Rural Health Care Facilities with Decentralised Renewables

Alliance for Rural Electrification, 2020

Lasting Impact: Sustainable Off-Grid Solar Delivery Models to Power Health and Education

SEforALL, 2019

Powering Health Facilities - Approach

SEforALL (draft), 2020

Hospital

Data analysis

19 Jul 2021

Powering Healthcare Solutions Catalogue
Electrification Options for Rural Health Clinics

USAID, 2020

Powering Health toolkit

USAID, 2020

Emergency solutions for power supply to isolation centers/health facilities for COVID-19 crisis relief

SEforALL, 2020

Sustainable energy access for COVID-19 testing

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Sustainable energy driven and climate responsive infrastructure for isolation and therapeutic units for COVID-19

SELCO Foundation, 2020

Country case studies

Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda

Oxford, 2020

Energy Sector Financing report cover

Knowledge brief

08 Oct 2020

Changes in Energy Sector Financing During COVID-19: Lessons From the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Powering Primary Healthcare through Solar in India

CEEW, 2017

Improving Access to Clean Reliable Energy for Primary Health Care Centres in Nigeria

Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 2018

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Uganda Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Ghana Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

Health Facility Energy Needs Assessment - Malawi Country Summary Report

UNF, 2015

COVID-19

Disease commodity packages

WHO, 2020

Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre

WHO, 2020

Guidance for management of COVID-19 in healthcare facilities

Mazzetti, 2020

Medical cold chain

Chilling Prospects 2021 cover

Research

05 May 2021

Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2021
Chilling Prospects 2020

Research

16 Jul 2020

Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2020
Cooling for All: The role of cold chain in delivering a COVID-19 vaccine

SEforALL, 2020