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Achieving Better Data: How an eLMIS is Transforming Malawi’s Health Supply Chain

Thank You For the Medicine: Supplies Saving Lives in Rwanda

Emergency Supply Chain Preparedness and Response Framework

When it comes to emergency supply chain management, a little preparedness goes a long way. Investing relatively small amounts of time and resources up-front to reach a minimum level of preparedness can significantly improve outcomes for vulnerable populations when an epidemic occurs, minimizing the impact on people and infrastructure. The USAID Global Health Supply Chain - Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order project has developed a framework to help countries get their supply chains ready for emergencies – from disease outbreaks to natural disasters.

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Scott Ackerson

Grace Adeya

Valentin Issiaka Coulibaly

Colin Credle

Scott Dubin

Dr. Dah El Hadj Sidi

Dr. Charlemagne Gnoula

Dr. Florence Guillaume

Mauricio Gutierrez

Caroline Healey

Eric Howell

Dr. Aline Kane

Deo Kimera

Melissa Logan

Gita Maitra

Shane McGee

Ruphin Mulongo

Thidiane Ndoye

W Shaun O’Neil

Benjamin Ongeri

Samantha Salcedo-Mason

Tony Savelli

Jamal Sayess

Christopher Scott

Kim Shelsby

Anna Slother

Daniel Taddesse

Duncan Thomson

Erdem Turhan

Lauramare Val

Kate Woods

Doris Youngs

Malawi OpenLMIS TechBrief

Ambient Climate Monitoring in Health Supply Chains

Transportation Management System: TransIT and ePOD

GHSC-PSM UAV Procurement Guide

Continual Learning with Arizona State University

Chemonics – Arizona State University Partnership for Innovation

Emergency Supply Chain Framework Playbook

Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order – Global Health Security Agenda

GHSC-PSM Global Standards and Traceability

GS1 Country Implementation Guide

Our Work in Supply Chain Solutions

Simulation Exercise Presentation and Materials

Best Practices in Supply Chain Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies

Why Does A Mining Company Care About Malaria? The Ivanhoe Fionet Partnership

Getting to Zero ARV Stockouts in Kenya: APHA 2015 Conference Presentation

Global Health Supply Chain Program Technical Assistance Project Francophone Task Order Quarterly Report

Projects
News and Blog

Strengthening Logistics Information and Management Systems in Chad

Improving management of critical medical commodities in Chad is essential to sustaining the country’s progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.

Fostering Responsible Local Stewardship of Global Fund Grants

Supporting national committees that coordinate Global Fund grants reinforces local ownership and strengthens the effort to end the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics.

Stronger Book Supply Chains for Honduran Schools

With schools able to access more reading materials through a stronger supply chain, students in Honduras are benefiting from higher-quality education.

Empowering Health Leaders in West and Central Africa and Haiti

Through the USAID Global Health Supply Chain (GHSC) - Technical Assistance (TA) Francophone Task Order, health leaders are improving national supply chains and advancing global health security.

Cutting-edge Technologies in Global Health Supply Chains

To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project employs cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to make global health supply chains more efficient and reach more people.

Transforming the Nigerian Agriculture Sector

Nigerians who farm for a living often face low harvests and sales, which threatens the population’s livelihoods, access to food, and health.

Using Evidence-Based Analysis for a Food-Secure World

An early warning system that provides timely data and evidence-based analysis helps the international community identify and respond to populations that lack access to safe and nutritious food.

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5 Steps to Better Government Supply Chain Technology

Automated information systems are now widely used to manage the data that flows throughout a supply chain, from procuring a commodity, to manufacturing it, and, finally, to distributing it to a consumer. For example, modern retailers like Amazon can track a product from the point of manufacture to the customer’s door. However, in the developing…

News: Partnering to Improve Lives in Frontier Economies

The Frontier Economies Logistics Lab (FELL) meeting will convene more than 100 forward-thinking supply chain leaders from the private sector, academia, and global development community to exchange ideas and harness commercial tools to enhance supply chains and improve people’s lives in developing countries. “This summer FELL meeting will focus on applying specific commercial tools and…

3 Ways to Better Protect Medicine Quality and Safety in Supply Chains

Medicines distributed at health facilities in small towns in Mauritania, large cities in Nigeria, and remote areas in Cambodia take a long journey to get there. It all starts with the manufacturers that produce them — many of which are based as far away as China or India. Once they have been produced by the…

News: Chemonics at the 72nd World Health Assembly

Every year, the World Health Assembly — the decision-making body of the World Health Organization —convenes to explore the top issues on the global health agenda. During the 72nd Session of the World Health Assembly, Chemonics looks forward to joining international stakeholders for side events that elevate the visibility of these issues, from universal health…

5 Reasons We Need Automation to Continually Improve Supply Chains

In global health supply chains, the geographic spread of delivery is often vast, the diseases we respond to are complex, and the potential risks for public health emergencies or supply chain interruptions are ever-present. This makes continual improvement that much more critical. Chemonics recognized this critical need in 2015 with the award of the $9.5…

News: Innovation, Technology, and Advancing the SDGs at ICT4D 2019

Digital technology has had a profound impact on global development across sectors and in many parts of the world. From April 30 to May 3, public, private, and civil society organizations from more than 80 countries will convene for the 2019 Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Now in its…

Development Works Here with Dzenita Kolja

We’d like you to meet Dzenita Kolja! Dzenita serves as managing director of the Audit Preparedness Unit within Chemonics’ Global Health Supply Chain Office. Once an aid beneficiary herself, she shares her development journey from Bosnia to the U.S. and what draws her to this work. Dzenita is one reason #DevelopmentWorksHere. 1. Can you tell…

News: Chemonics Tackles High-Priority Global Education Issues at CIES 2019

From April 15 to April 18, Chemonics will present at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) in San Francisco, California. The conference convenes thousands of researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers from around the globe to discuss high-priority education issues. In their presentations at CIES, Chemonics’ education specialists will tackle…

News: GHSC-PSM Project Hits 87 Percent On-Time Delivery and Achieves $85 Million in Savings Per Recent Annual Report

As reported in the recently published Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report, covering the period of October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018, the USAID Global Health and Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project made big strides in delivering lifesaving commodities on time and building efficient, reliable, and cost-effective health supply chains…

Operating a Global Health Supply Chain in Low-Resource Settings

This post originally appeared on the APICS blog. Companies work tirelessly to optimize supply chain management and enhance end-to-end performance. From agribusiness to information technology, we all strive for better data, stronger foresight and breakthrough innovations. And, of course, we want that all-important metric — on-time delivery. But the global health sector confronts a unique…

Driving Interoperability Through a Common Language

Whether you’re in line at the supermarket or online ordering clothes, nearly every item has a barcode. This barcode is one of many standardized methods for indicating the quality of a product. With a standard method for product identification and data collection, you can track where a product came from and where it is going.…

Best of the Blog 2018

Check out our countdown to the most popular posts from 2018:* 10. Making Development Dollars Go Further By Spencer Parsons and Gabriel Gonzalez-Kreisberg It will require an extra $2.5 trillion to achieve the SDGs. Can the development community find creative ways to fill that gap? 9. How Can Countries Pay for Their Health Systems? Supply Chains Might…

News: Chemonics Accelerates Global Health Supply Chain Excellence at GHSCS

The Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) brings together academics, country planners, NGOs, logistics practitioners, pharmaceutical companies, and donor representatives to discuss emerging trends and tools in global health supply chains. Hosted in Lusaka, Zambia, from November 28 to 30, this year’s summit will focus on accelerating global health supply chain excellence. Chemonics’ heath supply…

Who Says Math Isn’t Cool? Applying Mathematical Optimization in Public Health Supply Chains

Across industries, companies work tirelessly to optimize their supply chains to get customers what they want, when they want it, and spend as little money as possible in the process. From agribusiness to e-commerce and information technology, companies strive for better data, stronger foresight, and breakthrough innovations that allow them to deliver high-quality goods faster…

News: Chemonics Responds to House Foreign Affairs Committee Report about the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management Project

On October 15, 2018, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) published a report, Oversight Investigation: USAID Global Health Supply Chain Contract. The report offers key findings and recommendations for the many stakeholders of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, including USAID, the State Department’s Office of the…

Increasing Resiliency in the Face of Disaster: Four Best Practices

As Category 4 Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Southeast of the United States last week, preliminary damage estimates indicated 758,000 homes across three states could be impacted. Reconstruction costs were estimated at $170.2 billion. Despite the dire forecast and its associated challenges, however, the United States is one of the countries most prepared to respond…

News: GHSC-PSM’s Latest Report Shows Strong and Steady On-time Delivery Rates, Expansion of In-country Presence to 33 Field Offices

The USAID GHSC-PSM project recently published a report highlighting the project’s achievements in the third quarter of FY2018 (April 1 to June 30, 2018). GHSC-PSM remains committed to operating a global supply chain that is focused on a safe, reliable, and continuous supply of life-saving health commodities to those who need them most. On the…

News: USAID and Chemonics Selected as Government Innovation Awards Winners

The transformative power of information technology (IT) infiltrates the day-to-day lives of people around the world — from the once-remote communities who now embrace social media to the youth who were excluded from finance but are now using mobile money. Across geographical borders and technical sectors, IT is helping to drive change, and the public…

The 21st Century Goldilocks: Using Technology to Monitor the Temperature of Health Commodities

From the agricultural to the health sector, an enormous quantity of commodities moves through supply chains. But as these agricultural goods, medicines, or health commodities travel all the way from manufacturer to patient, how can we continuously monitor their temperature and conditions to maintain their quality and effectiveness? This is particularly vital in the health…

News: Partnering with Arizona State University to Support Continual Learning for Employees Worldwide

Arizona State University (ASU) is a leader in expanding educational access for learners around the world through its high-quality online platforms, which is one of the reasons U.S. News and World Report has named it the most innovative university in the United States for three years in a row. Through its online platforms, ASU annually…

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