Supplement in Progress
Guest Editors
Dominique Zwinkels, People that Deliver, Denmark
Lloyd Matowe, PhD, Eden University School of Pharmacy, Zambia
Domina Asingizwe, PhD, University of Rwanda, Rwanda
Andrew Brown, PhD, Management Sciences for Health, Australia
Jonathan Moody, People that Deliver, Denmark
Health commodities reach patients through long and complex supply chains. Any weaknesses in the supply chain can result in supply shortages, which are widely recognized as significant limiters of health outcomes. Health supply chains depend on a well-staffed workforce comprising skilled, motivated, and recognized professionals that ensure health commodities reach the patients who need them. If supply chain professionals in low- and middle-income countries are supported to develop their technical and managerial competencies, supply chain performance improves, making health commodities more readily available at service delivery points and positively affecting health outcomes.
The Supply Chain Workforce: The Foundation of Health Supply Chains supplement highlights the fundamental role of a professionalized health supply chain workforce in enabling populations access to the health commodities they need and demonstrates how supporting these professionals will reinforce health systems as they work towards universal health coverage. The 9 articles in the supplement share research, promising practices, and lessons learned from the implementation of workforce development interventions with the aim of advocating increased investments in human resources for health supply chain management and ushering in an even more coordinated effort to ensure that the professionals who run health supply chains are best placed to do so.
Articles will be added here as they are published.
Table of Contents
People that Deliver: Established to Address the Health Supply Chain Workforce Gap
Dominique Zwinkels, Andrew Brown and Francis Aboagye-Nyame
Presenting a Framework to Professionalize Health Supply Chain Management
Andrew N. Brown, Barry Chovitz, Richard dos Santos, Michael Egharevba, Bridget McHenry, Erin Meier and Dominique Zwinkels
Promising Practices in Capacity Development for Health Supply Chains in Resource-Constrained Countries
Mahama Duwiejua, Pamela Steele, Paul Lalvani, Dorothy Leab, Lloyd Matowe and Jonathan Moody
Strategic Training Executive Program 2.0: A Leadership and Change Management Program for Health Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Patricia Bobo, George Bray, Kevin Etter and Namrata Singh