Pharmaceutical and Supply Chain Management

Ensuring Access to Quality Products and Medicines

Accessing health products, medicines, and related services—whether to avoid unintended pregnancy, prevent infection, or treat disease—should not be a risky endeavor. People should expect to receive safe and quality health products, dispensed correctly, at an affordable price.

For over 30 years, MSH has been a global leader in pharmaceutical and supply chain systems strengthening, supporting countries to work sustainably through good governance, resource efficiency, country leadership, and developing local technical expertise and self-sufficiency. 

We support countries in improving regulatory systems, enforcing compliance, optimizing financing, and developing robust systems to distribute quality-assured medicines and health products to providers and patients. Whether it is a pharmacist training program, software to monitor stock, or a system to report adverse events, we create state-of-the-art tools to manage medicines and provide quality pharmaceutical care across the health system.

Strengthening Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Systems for Sustained Health Impact

For more than three decades, MSH has partnered with countries to build high-performing supply chains that ensure reliable access to safe, effective, quality-assured medicines and people-centered pharmaceutical services. MSH takes a holistic approach that fosters country-led innovation, whole-of-society engagement and collaboration, private-sector engagement, and effective leadership and governance.

Management Sciences for Health Selected by USAID to Support Global Health Supply Chains

MSH has been selected by USAID as a winner of the Global Health Supply Chain NextGen Comprehensive Technical Assistance contract. This indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award means that MSH is one of five large organizations that will partner with USAID to provide countries with technical assistance on their supply chain needs through 2034.

MSH at the People that Deliver Global Indaba 2024

Join MSH at the People that Deliver (PtD) Global Indaba conference from March 6–8 in Bangkok, Thailand. Delving into the conference theme, The supply chain workforce: Solutions to transform health supply chains, our delegation will share insights on leadership, supply chain transformation, capacity building, partnerships, and workforce development, drawing on over three decades of MSH leadership in pharmaceutical and supply chain systems strengthening.

MSH Senior Fellow, Dr. Iain Barton, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Tiwonge Mkandawire, and Vinod Guptan discuss the role of pooled procurement mechanisms in strengthening supply chain management and advancing the availability of quality essential health products. Alongside the event, MSH released two new white papers aimed at helping policy makers and supply chain professionals better design, negotiate, and implement pooled procurement mechanisms. Download the papers here: https://msh.org/resources/the-positives-and-pitfalls-of-pooled-procurement/
To strengthen the country’s health supply chain and improve access to medicines and health commodities, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, in partnership with the USAID Uganda Strengthening Supply Chain Systems Activity and partners, are embarking on digitizing and integrating the entire medicines supply chain to improve end-to-end data visibility.
Despite making great progress, health facilities in Uganda continue to face stock-outs of essential medicines, limiting people’s ability to access quality health services that can save their lives and improve their well-being. To bridge existing gaps in the health supply chain, Uganda’s Ministry of Health with support from the MSH-led, USAID Uganda Strengthening Supply Chain Systems (SSCS) Activity and partners, initiated the Health Supply Chain Solutions Challenge. The Challenge sought proposals for bold ideas for novel, sustainable solutions that improve timely access to and availability of quality essential medicines and health supplies in the country. Winners of the challenge will receive one year of technical and financial support of up to $50,000 USD to pilot and implement their solutions under the newly launched Supply Chain Innovation Lab.

Meet Our Technical Experts

Please direct all inquiries and media or speaking engagement requests for our Technical Experts to Jordan Coriza at jcoriza@msh.org or 617-250-9107.