About GHSCS

The Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) conference uniquely focuses on global health supply chains, covering all components (including human resources) and contextual factors affecting their performance. It stands out by presenting a structured, holistic and multi-stakeholder approach to addressing challenges of designing and managing end-to-end global health supply chain challenges in LMICs, particularly in Africa. GHSCS serves as a forum to bring rigor and systematic thinking to the work of the field practitioners as well as provide a platform to connect practitioners with the latest academic and industry insights. The issues addressed range from technical and operational to governance architecture and leadership, ensuring relevance across all levels of supply chain management.

The secretariat of GHSCS is located at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (USA).

Starting in 2008 as a workshop, GHSCS has been convening annually without interruption and has grown into a 3-day conference attracting about 400 people representing various stakeholders in the global health supply chain space. The program committee curates plenary sessions, which include keynote talks and panel sessions; in addition, GHSCS selectively features work being done on the ground in parallel track presentations and poster sessions. GHSCS also features sponsored sessions by stakeholders, side events, and arranges for site visits in the convening location.

GHSCS seeks to recognize organizations that have delivered documented success in improving healthcare supply chain practice. Annually GHSCS runs a prize competition to show case excellence in global health supply chain implementation in LMICs. Selected teams present their work at the annual GHSCS convening and a winner is selected by an independent panel of judges.

Under this initiative, GHSCS fosters a rigorous research-oriented approach to addressing global health supply chain challenges through a small seed grant award and mentorship support. The initiative was launched in 2021 with financial support from Chemonics International and in later years joined by the Africa Resource Center. Using a competitive process, research teams are selected for the award and offered mentorship throughout the nine-month research project engagement. Teams present their completed project in the following annual GHSCS convening.

In alphabetical order: Africa Medicines Agency; Africa Resource Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management; Africa Resource Centre; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Bioforce Institute; Chemonics International; Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI); Connexi; Crown Agents; Dimagi, Inc.; Expertise France; HLA/ Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; GAVI; GIZ; Imperial Health Sciences; Intra health International; John Hopkins University; JSI; I + solutions; International Finance Corporation; Help Logistics; Llamasoft; Logenix, LLC; London School of Business; Mebs Global; Merck for Mothers; PAE; PATH; People that Deliver; Pfizer; PICMA Africa, Inc.; PFSCM; Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center; Purdue University; Rwanda Medical Supply; Sanofi; SCMS; SIAPS; Tata Consultancy Services; UNFA; Unitaid; United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities; University of Michigan; University of San Francisco; University of Southern California; University of Warwick; UNOPS; USAID; US State Department; VillageReach; WHO; William Davidson Institute; World Bank

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