News: Launching the 2024-2025 Global Health Supply Chain Research Challenge

Chemonics and the Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) Group are excited to announce that Africa Resource Centre (ARC) is joining as a partner in the design and management of the Global Health Supply Chain (GHSC) Research Challenge.

In the three years since we launched the challenge, it has drawn an increasingly large pool of applicants from over 30 countries and a variety of supply chain actors. In 2023, we received a record-breaking 115 submissions. With the addition of ARC, we are excited to scale up the GHSC Research Challenge to now offer two grants of $12,000 each for the 2024-2025 cycle, expanding our collective support to local research teams that study challenges and create innovative solutions in global health supply chains and pharmaceutical management in low- and middle-income countries.

This initiative supports research with the aim of producing bespoke solutions that are contextually appropriate and scalable to other countries. Proposals cover a wide range of key supply chain themes, including data for decision-making and advanced analytics, supply chain sustainability and self-reliance, localization, governance, private sector engagement, risk management, and resiliency. For example, the winning proposal from 2022-2023 studied the utilization of data for decision making and performance of health supply chain management systems in two different counties in Kenya. The 2023-2024 research team, who are currently conducting their study, are assessing the economic and environmental burden of pharmaceutical waste in Tanzania and exploring approaches for improving sustainability of the supply chain.

The 2024-2025 Research Challenge application period will start in mid-August 2024. The award is open to individuals or organizations with education or experience in health supply chains and pharmaceutical management, with at least one person from the research team being from a low-and-middle income country.

Read more about the Research Challenge and past winners here.