Chemonics is pleased to announce the award and launch of the USAID-funded Central-Level Health Systems Strengthening project in Senegal. The project will support Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action to make meaningful, sustainable improvements to the country’s health system. The five-year, $19.9 million project will enable national-level stakeholders to participate in improving accountability and…
The Frontier Health Markets Global Technical Assistance (FHM Global TA) program will focus on supporting local actors to improve the ability of health markets to meet supply-side capacity gaps and consumer preferences, contributing to equitable provision of and access to high-quality family planning and other health services and products in mixed health systems. Led by…
We’d like you to meet Dr. Mulamuli Mpofu! Dr. Mpofu is a senior director of Global Health Programs with a special focus on malaria. Dr. Mpofu shares how he got involved with global health as a career, his view on how malaria can be eliminated globally, and the steps we can take to build stronger…
1. What draws you to work in global health? After completing medical school in France, I spent 16 months as a clinician at a hospital in French Guyana, where I took care of patients with tropical diseases (such as malaria, amebiasis, and tuberculosis) and I decided to specialize in tropical medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. Afterwards,…
In this two-part series, we call for country leaders to consider whether they are optimizing their health workforce and offer some resources and tools to help ensure uninterrupted care and continued provision of high-quality health services. In Part 1, we provided three recommendations to support health workers in the short term. We now consider sustainable…
Before COVID-19, health workers were already in short supply in many countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified 57 countries that have critical health workforce shortages, and it estimates a global health worker shortage of 18 million by 2030, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Since the pandemic began, health workers have often been pulled…
Deogratius (Deo) Kimera is a pharmaceutical supply chain management expert, a public health specialist, and a leader with more than 25 years of international experience in health systems strengthening, including 16 years serving as a country director for centrally awarded, multilateral USAID health supply chain projects in Botswana, Tanzania, Ghana, and Zambia. Deo has ample experience working with the U.S. President’s…
Chemonics International, one of the world’s largest international development companies, and Howard University, a leading institution for educating professionals in health, science, engineering, and more, are proud to announce the launch of the joint Pharmacy Practice Fellowship. The fellowship, which will commence in July 2021, complements Chemonics’ and Howard’s ongoing collaboration with the College of…
Wayne Lifshitz is an entrepreneurial senior leader, systems-thinker, business strategist, and strategic connector with more than 20 years of cross-cutting experience in Big 5 consulting, start-up, nonprofit, federal, and social enterprise sectors. He is currently a Senior Director in Asia for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project and acted…
As different countries start the process of vaccinating their populations against COVID-19, some struggle with critical issues like vaccine hesitancy. Securing the demand for COVID-19 vaccinations represents a leading threat to achieving herd immunity in low- and middle-income countries. On March 24, 2021, Chemonics and the Global Health Supply Chain Summit Group hosted a webinar featuring practitioners, community leaders,…
Dr. Baz Semo is a medical doctor and public health specialist with 30 years of experience in infectious diseases and health systems strengthening. She served as the managing director of global health programs at Chemonics. Prior to Chemonics, Baz worked for ministries of health in several African countries, U.S. academic institutions, U.S. nonprofits, and the…
Ladi Agbenu Stephen currently serves as the Angola country director for the Global Health Supply Chain program – Procurement and Supply Management project. She is a public health supply chain system strengthening specialist, pharmacist, and certified project manager with more than 16 years of experience in healthcare supply chain development in sub-Saharan Africa on malaria,…