One objective under Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to “achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.” To achieve this objective by 2030, countries need an increase in health financing efforts both domestically and…
Although we now have the technology to launch an electric car into space using reusable booster rockets, and, to give a more mundane example, can communicate via video conference with people all over the globe on a daily basis, something as commonplace as childbirth is still one of the riskiest moments in a woman’s life,…
Daniel Taddesse has more than 18 years of pharmaceutical and public health development experience with government and development organizations, including project management, system design, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation and cultivating strategic relationships with stakeholders. Currently, Daniel leads a team of more than 150 in Ethiopia for the GHSC-PSM project. He has extensive experience in…
Benjamin Ongeri is a pharmacist and a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) with more than 15 years of pharmaceutical management experience. He provides overall strategic direction for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Namibia. This includes leading the development of pharmaceutical supply chain systems strengthening technical…
Colin Credle is a logistics specialist with more than 10 years of experience managing responses, logistics, and deliveries for international health projects in Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Europe and Eurasia. As Project HOPE’s regional manager of Russia, Eurasia, and Asia, Colin oversaw export, transport, and import of donated medicines each year, and was responsible…
In 2015, the United Nations ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, which include bold targets to eradicate poverty and deliver comprehensive healthcare worldwide by 2030. To achieve Goal 3, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, reaching the largest segment of the world’s poor — the women, children, and men who live…