Check out our countdown of the 10 most popular blog posts from 2019! 10. To Respond to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis, Let’s Also Tap the Private Sector By Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares As Venezuelan migrants navigate challenges in host countries, the private sector must play an active role in maximizing their economic opportunities. 9. Development Works Here…
This post originally appeared on Devex. While the global HIV/AIDS community has made great strides toward the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS’ 90-90-90 goals and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s epidemic control goals, there is still a long journey ahead to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Critical to the global…
This post originally appeared on Devex. In remote regions of Malawi, terrain, infrastructure, and resource limitations delay — and can even prevent — lifesaving diagnoses and medicine deliveries to hospitals and health centers. Similar obstacles exist in countries across the developing world and the global health community is starting to turn to drones to…
A bus stops at the Namanga One Stop Border Post along the Kenya-Tanzania border when some of its passengers begin to fall ill. Amid recent reports of a disease outbreak in the nearby community, health workers are ready and dressed in personal protective equipment. They climb aboard to triage; one attempts to collect information from…
We’d like you to meet Muhammad Tariq! Muhammad is a physician and supply chain expert. Currently serving as the country director for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Pakistan, he shares his development journey from medicine to integrated supply chain systems strengthening and what draws him…
Dr. Muhammad Tariq is a physician and supply chain expert with more than 30 years of management and technical experience in global health and health systems. He currently serves as the country director for the GHSC-PSM Pakistan program. Muhammad has extensive experience in initiating and successfully executing programs at Family Health International (FHI), Population Services…
On September 19, Chemonics hosted Beyond Building Blocks, Part II: Health Systems Thinking in Action to explore how health systems thinking is applied in different programs and at different levels to foster a better understanding of the complex interconnectivity of health systems interventions. Held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the event applied…
On September 18, 2019, Chemonics Executive Vice President Jamey Butcher received the 2019 Award of Excellence – Supply Chain Leader from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), the global leader in supply chain learning, transformation, innovation, and leadership. Mr. Butcher oversees Chemonics’ global health supply chain portfolio, providing technical assistance and service delivery to…
Inès Buki has 16 years of professional experience working under USAID-funded projects. She was country director for both the USAID Strengthening Pharmaceutical System (SPS) project and the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program in Rwanda and Cameroon. Prior to that, Inès provided technical assistance through several assignments in Senegal, Benin,…
Dr. Innocent Ibegbunam is a public health development expert with nearly 20 years of visionary leadership, with more than a decade at senior leadership level on USAID and The Global Fund-supported programs in developing Africa countries. He is an expert in health supply chain system design, forecasting and supply planning, procurement, inventory management and optimization,…
Mr Cheikh Sidya Gassama is currently Country Director for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Guinea. Prior to that he served as Country Director for USAID/GHSC-PSM project in Burundi, and other postings include Guinea and Senegal. He has more than 20 years’ experience of developing tools, implementing and capacity…
Jean-Pierre Sallet is a pharmaceutical and supply chain advisor with over 37 years of experience in pharmaceutical systems in Africa, Russia, South East Asia, Latin America and the West Indies. He has managed several USAID large pharmaceutical and supply chain systems strengthening operations while working closely with the various ministries of health and collaborating with…