11th Global Health Supply Chain Summit
November 28-30, 2018
Summit Venue:
Lusaka, Zambia
Conference Theme:
Accelerating Global Health Supply Chain Excellence:
Better Supply Chain System Design, Innovative Financing for Health and New Technologies & Integrated Information Systems
Conference Purpose: The 11th Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) will be held over three days, November 28-30, 2018 in Lusaka, Zambia. The summit will focus on accelerating global health supply chain excellence through better supply chain system design, innovative financing for health supply / demand / performance, and deployment of new technologies (e.g., drones, sensors, digital health, etc.) & integrated information systems. Participants will hear about case studies, strategies, and frameworks from practitioners and academics in the above themes of this year’s summit. As in the previous conferences, the summit will assemble an impressive group of practitioners and experts from the global health supply chain field including academics, country planners, NGOs, logistics practitioners, pharmaceutical industry, and donor representatives. We encourage both English and French speaking presenters and participants. We will provide French-English and English-French simultaneous translation during the conference. The conference schedule includes:
November 28-29
- Keynotes, presentations, and discussions
- Finalist presentations and announcement of the 4th Global Health Supply Chain prize
November 30
- Training on relevant best practice tools in supply chain management
- Academic session for doctoral students and young faculty to discuss research in global health supply chains
Attendees will thus get access to both best practice results, ideas regarding state of the art tools, as well as “how-to” ideas to improve performance in their respective contexts. The Summit will thus provide a forum for attendees to learn from the community of global health care supply chain experts. Challenges in health care delivering remain urgent, but the adoption of innovative practices, technologies and coordinating agreements provides hope for a brighter future.
The 11th Global Supply Chain Summit will also announce the winner of the 4th Global Health Supply Chain Prize, details regarding application for this prize will be forthcoming soon. If you have an innovative application and operate in a low or middle income country, we encourage your share your success and become a contender for the prize. Selected finalists for the prize will have the opportunity to present their initiative at the conference to a panel of judges, who will select the winner.
We will provide more details on registration, call for papers, hotel information, etc. soon. We hope that you will be able to participate in this exciting summit. Please mark your calendars.