This webinar, presented at SAPICS 2020, discusses inclusion of youth-centered programming across global health supply chains. Panelists highlight the importance of workforce training programs that combine skills development with on-the-job training and support. Panelists share their experiences from various global health supply chain projects, highlighting the benefits of youth capacity building when enhancing supply chain…
Ladi Agbenu Stephen currently serves as the Angola country director for the Global Health Supply Chain program – Procurement and Supply Management project. She is a public health supply chain system strengthening specialist, pharmacist, and certified project manager with more than 16 years of experience in healthcare supply chain development in sub-Saharan Africa on malaria,…
Digital health presents new opportunities to contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 3, to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages. We are proud to promote technological development and engage the workforce necessary to harness and leverage the power and possibility behind digital health. Next week, Chemonics will join more than 1,000 digital health practitioners…
Going to a health care facility to pick up antiretrovirals (ARVs) became a precarious task for the approximately 38 million people across the globe living with HIV during COVID-19. The risk of exposure while accessing essential services and counseling suddenly became too high for immunocompromised patients. As the situation unfolded, the global health community grappled…
Juan F. Jaramillo is a supply chain management specialist with 17 years of experience. His areas of expertise are freight and logistics, forecasting and supply planning, data strategy, and program and change management. Juan has specialized in health products for HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, and malaria across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He holds…
World AIDS Day is December 1. This year’s theme for World AIDS Day is global solidarity, shared responsibility. Join us in spreading the word on how to end AIDS and fast-track the progress to achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals with the social media toolkit below.
Ralph Titus is a commercial supply chain professional with an MSM in supply chain and a CPPM in project management. He is experienced in strategic development and process improvements in manual and automated commercial, humanitarian response, and developmental logistics in North and Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Mid East, and Sub-Sahara Africa. He is a…
Today’s supply chains are growing in complexity, driven by factors such as globalization and changing market trends. Global health supply chains offer unique challenges and opportunities due to the changing patterns of commodity flows and new demands for responsive and agile supply chains that don’t compromise on the quality of medicines. As a result, the…
The Malawi Supply Chain Integration project works in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its stakeholders to integrate Malawi’s parallel supply chains by embedding a Project Management Team (PMT) at the Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST). The project’s primary goal is to assist the MOH in building a patient-centered national health commodity supply…
This presentation, delivered at the 2020 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference, explains how the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project developed a multi-month simulation (MuMS) tool for scenario planning, facilitating data-driven conversations with local and international stakeholders on the feasibility of rolling out MMD for three to six months. MuMS…
To address the challenges associated with retaining trained and qualified health systems staff in Benin, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order (GHSC-TA Francophone TO) project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), launched the Young Logistician Professionals Program (YLPP) in 2018. YLPP recruits and trains young professionals to manage and…
Presented at the Health Humanitarian Logistics 2020 Conference on September 29, 2020, this presentation explains InfoMED, a comprehensive LMIS for commodity management which captures patient data and triangulates it with data on drug availability. By ensuring interoperability with DHIS-2, InfoMED builds on previous investments and supports commodity availability, especially during emergencies like COVID-19. The implementation…