Vaccine Certificates Must Go Digital: An Urgent Call for Better Public Health Outcomes

Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Júnior   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Sebastian Garcia-Saiso   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Myrna Marti   ^{1 *} , MPH ;   Daniel Salas   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Marcela Contreras   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Martha Velandia-Gonzalez   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Daniel Luna   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Jennifer Nelson   ^{3 *} , MD ;   James Fitzgerald   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Ernesto Bascolo   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Ivy Lorena Talavera Romero   ^{1 *} , MD ;   May Chomali   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Walter H Curioso   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Fernando Plazzotta   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Carlos Otero   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Alejandro Lopez Osornio   ^{6 *} , MD ;   Tessa Lennemann   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Karen Salinas   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Marcelo D'Agostino   ^{1 *} , MD

¹ Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States

² Department of Public Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

³ Social Sector and Health Division, Inter American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States

⁴ Centro Nacional de Sistemas de Informacion en Salud - CENS, Santiago de Chile, Chile

⁵ Universidad Continental, Lima, Peru

⁶ Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

⁷ Department of Digital Innovation for Pandemic Control (DIPC), German Agency for International Cooperation, Berlin, Germany

*all authors contributed equally