From July 18 to 19, health and humanitarian sector professionals will convene in Dubai, one of the world’s largest hubs for humanitarian relief. As a sponsor of the Health & Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) Conference, Chemonics looks forward to exploring disaster preparedness and response, long-term development and humanitarian aid, and global health delivery. In our presentations,…
Chemonics International, one of the world’s leading international development consulting firms working in over 70 countries, and One Network Enterprises, a global provider of multi-party digital network platform and services, today announced a new partnership to promote and safeguard the timely and safe delivery of health medicines and commodities throughout Nigeria. Chemonics will use One…
On May 8, 2018, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever after confirming two cases of the disease by laboratory tests in the northwestern part of the country. The government made the decision after receiving reports of an additional 21 suspected cases of Ebola, including…
Dr. Aline Kane is a pharmacist with over 20 years of managerial and technical experience in strengthening the pharmaceutical sector in West Africa in the areas of governance, supply chain management, quality assurance, and logistics management information systems (LMIS). A native of Senegal, Aline previously managed a USAID-funded project in Cameroon, and provided procurement and…
The work undertaken by the Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) Francophone Task Order project focused on the medical/nonmedical countermeasures action package of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) in Cameroon. The goal of this action package is to ensure that at a country level, there is a national framework for sending and receiving…
To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain – 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.
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…
Dr. Mariam Reda is a former Director in Chemonics’ Global Health Division.
Ebola has a case fatality rate of approximately 50 to 70 percent. Although it has been more than 40 years since the first-ever case of the Ebola virus in humans was diagnosed, there is still no licensed, specific treatment for the disease. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa took the lives of thousands, left…
Malaria, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, killed an estimated 438,000 people in 2015, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. While this is still an unacceptable situation for an entirely preventable disease, the 2015 mortality figure actually represents a 48 percent decrease over the past fifteen years. Much of this progress has been through tremendous scale-up of frontline…
This blog post originally appeared on ClimateLinks. In backpacking across Africa as a recent college graduate, James Colborn felt drawn to the place and the people and wanted to do more than just travel around as a tourist. Soon after, he found his calling in global health. Today, Colborn has a Ph.D. in parasitology and…