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,…
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…
Climate variability and change present both current and future risks to human health. The purpose of this report is to: Increase understanding of the influence of climate variability and change, specifically, rising temperatures on malaria exposure of populations in sub-Saharan Africa; and provide public health decision-makers and stakeholder practitioners with information to make decisions about…
The Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) program ensures uninterrupted supplies of health commodities by enabling the identification, data capture, and data sharing of every item procured at every point in the supply chain, from manufacturer to dispensary to the end user/patient. This provides security and efficiency in the supply chain…
The intent of this document is to provide guidance to country programs for systematically organizing the work of operationalizing and executing a vision and strategy for pharmaceutical traceability. It is not intended to be prescriptive, but to serve as guidance for developing a vision, strategy, and implementation roadmap specific to the country environment – one…
Every year, CORE Group’s Global Health Practitioner Conference (GHPC) convenes global community health professionals to share knowledge, evidence, and best practices. Chemonics is proud to sponsor CORE Group’s flagship annual conference, taking place in Bethesda, Maryland from May 6 to 9. The 2019 GHPC theme is partnerships and innovations for community health. More than 300…
In the global development community, there is a growing call to design and implement interventions that take a more holistic view of the health system. Systems thinking makes this possible and allows donors and implementing partners to better understand the interactions, behaviors, and effects within the wider health system. On March 14, Chemonics hosted Beyond…
To achieve health for all, the global health community needs the participation of everyone working in the health system: public, private, or not-for-profit. Often global health programming focuses on public sector health systems. But, by some accounts, faith-based organizations deliver between 30 and 70 percent of health services across sub-Saharan Africa. To provide equitable and accessible health services…
Development is not working — at least not at the scale or pace needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the central, fact-based premise behind calls and movements to do development differently from host-country recipients of aid, international organizations, donors, and implementing partners. Such calls emphasize adaptive, locally-owned, problem-solving approaches to tackle chronic development challenges.…
The Global Fund invested nearly $4 billion annually to accelerate the eradication of the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics. To foster local ownership and participatory decision-making, the Global Fund looked to country-level, multi-stakeholder partnerships called country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs). These partnerships worked with organizations receiving Global Fund grants to develop programs, submit funding requests, and…
USAID partnered with the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in Côte d’Ivoire to build a health product supply chain system with end-to-end visibility that will serve as a model in West Africa. This investment significantly improved the availability of health products for HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health, and family planning. USAID’s Integrated Health…
Samuel Oh was formerly the MIS catalog manager on the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program, Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project.