To improve access to high-quality health products worldwide, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project employs cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices to make global health supply chains more efficient and reach more people.
Presenting a Framework to Professionalize Health Supply Chain Management .
Paper | October 31, 2024
Study authored by Andrew N. Brown, Barry Chovitz, Richard dos Santos, Michael Egharevba, Bridget McHenry, Erin Meier and Dominique Zwinkels
Many countries have an insufficient supply of adequately skilled supply chain workers to manage health commodities, and no global standards in education or experience exist for the supply chain management (SCM) workforce managing health products. The authors present a professionalization framework for the health SCM workforce that provides a systematic process that countries can use to standardize and elevate the health SCM profession.
This study was originally published in Global Health: Science and Practice.