Our Fund was recently named the 2020 winner of the Global Health Supply Chain Virtual Summit. Our coalition members, Tapiwa Mukwashi, Mila Nepomnyashchiy, Vickie Remoe, Dr. Madeleine Ballard, Thomas Tighe and Ramatu Jalloh presented our work and progress to date. Watch the full video here.
We are proud to share the Global Health Supply Chain Summit’s feedback below.
Graphics source: Global Health Supply Chain Summit website
About the competition: Challenges in managing supply chains to deliver health outcomes in global health contexts abound, particularly when factors beyond the control of supply chain managers such as infrastructure, port clearance delays, weather, governance issues, location of clinics, human resource capabilities, etc. all impact success. Despite such challenges, we see stories of remarkable success in improving health delivery and outcomes that leverage partnerships between organizations, and in cooperation with governments, NGOs and donors, deploying innovative and appropriate technology and human resource practices. Each year, we seek to recognize such organizations by celebrating & sharing practices that have delivered documented success.
Up to four projects typically are invited to present their work at the Summit. The organization with a winning submission is recognized with a monetary prize. The review panel is comprised of experts with experience in global health contexts but are not involved in any of the projects themselves. This year’s judges were:
Steven Harsono, Head of Public Health, IQVIA Asia Pacific
Pascale Leroueil, Vice President of the Healthcare sector, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Azuka Okeke, CEO, Africa Resource Centre, Nigeria
Kelly Hamblin, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Prof. Sriram Dasu, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California