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…
Mary Lyn Field-Nguer is an HIV/AIDS expert with more than 35 years of experience supporting international and domestic health programs, including clinical service delivery, prevention and treatment, and health commodity supply chain management. She is the former director for the HIV task order under the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project.
Shaun O’Neil has nearly 25 years of international development experience with nearly 20 years’ experience implementing donor-funded health programs focused on strengthening HIV/AIDS, malaria, family planning, and maternal, child health commodity supply chains. Shaun is currently a managing director overseeing nine country supply chain and health systems strengthening programs in eastern and southern Africa for…
A supply chain management expert with 25 years of experience managing multi‐country programs, Thidiane Ndoye has supported reproductive health commodity procurement efforts funded by USAID, the Global Fund, WHO, DfID, the World Bank, and UNICEF in West Africa, East Africa, and the Caribbean. While supporting the USAID/DELIVER Project, he developed strategies for integrated country operational…
At the Global Health Supply Chain Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we had the opportunity to hear about innovations, public-private partnerships, and other unique solutions that actors from various points of pharmaceutical supply chains are utilizing to solve last mile challenges. Unmanned aerial vehicles, blockchains, Uber-like mobile phone applications for delivery of essential medicines,…
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…
What would you like to see GHSC-PSM accomplish over the next five years? In other words, how do you define success for GHSC-PSM? On any project where health commodities are involved, the ultimate goal is to get high-quality commodities to those who need them, on time. That is the gold standard. For GHSC-PSM, though, we…
To meet the critical global health challenges of today’s world, the USAID Procurement and Supply Management Project (PSM) will transform global and national supply chains for essential health commodities into a supply chain that serves all people in need. In addition to optimizing supply chains, PSM applies a holistic approach to strengthening in-country supply chain…