2023 Summit ~ Nairobi, Kenya
JOURNEY TO SELF RELIANCE
Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains for Equitable Access to Healthcare
The severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health systems and supply chains highlighted the importance of supply chain capability and diversification in ensuring timely access to life-saving medicines and healthcare. As countries take steps to build more resilience into their health supply chains, there is an opportunity for country-led supply chain diversification to incorporate greater self-reliance. To capitalize on current progress, continued efforts are needed to accelerate governments’ commitment, strengthen local capacities, and harness sustainable partnerships across the public and private sectors
At GHSCS-2022, we discussed how to re-imagine health supply chains and systems for equity, resilience, and country ownership. A key topic that emerged from these discussions was the potential for self-reliance in health supply chains to support dependable end-to-end service delivery. This year we explored the various forms of such self-reliance and the likely steps on the journey to their achievement—from cultivating an enabling environment through governance and innovative financing mechanisms, to supporting and scaling innovation, and enabling local supplier development and regional manufacturing.
GHSCS 2023 explored these issues through a combination of keynotes, panel discussions, and contributed talks. Like in the past, the conference assembled a collection of experts that include government representatives, academics, NGOs, civil society, industry, donor, and multilateral representatives to explore these topics. The committee was particularly interested in capturing the voices from the field to learn and share experiences related to the conference theme and mechanisms to achieve these goals.
New this year, the conference schedule included 3 optional site visits in addition to keynote speakers, plenary panel discussions, cultivated talks, prize presentations, poster exhibits and sponsor & exhibitor booths.
The closing session included the announcement of the 16th Global Health Supply Chain prize winner.
2023 Program (pdf) here
2023 Prize Competition Summary here
GHSCS-2023 sincerely appreciates sponsorship from the following:
