Shaping 21st Century Health Supply Chains: The Positives and Pitfalls of Pooled Procurement
Shaping 21st Century Health Supply Chains: The Positives and Pitfalls of Pooled Procurement
Access to safe, effective, and affordable medicines and health commodities is driven in large part by the efficiency of a country’s procurement system. Without a well-planned procurement process, countries risk product and service quality, stockouts, costly emergency purchases, and over-purchasing.
On January 26th, MSH hosted a discussion on the role of pooled procurement mechanisms in strengthening supply chain management and advancing the availability of essential health products and services amidst complex challenges such as COVID-19.
This is the second in a series of forward-looking discussions with global experts on opportunities for reshaping health supply chains to make them more resilient and efficient.
Moderated by:
- Iain Barton, Senior Fellow at MSH and Founding Principal of Health4Development
Featuring:
- Muhammad Ali Pate, Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and former Minister of Health of Nigeria; Global Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group; and Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents
- Tiwonge Mkandawire, Global Team Lead for Supply Chain at VillageReach and former Health Systems Strengthening Team Lead at USAID South Africa
- Vinod Guptan, Chief Executive Officer at MedSource Group Limited
MSH has published two new papers to help policy makers and supply chain professionals better design, negotiate, and implement pooled procurement mechanisms.
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