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Prize

2019 Prize Results

Thank you to all who submitted entries to the 2019 GHSCS Prize Competition!

The winner of this year’s prize was awarded to Kenya Medical Supplies Authority

“Systems integration and decentralization of commodity management” presented by Martin Mwenda

 

Other presentations included:

“Improving the LImited Visibility of Stock Status of Health Commodities at Public Health Facilities in Lagos State” presented by Margaret Adedapo

“Vaccine Supply Chain Transformation in Ethiopia” presented by Nikita Birkbeck of John Snow, Inc.

“RASS” presented by Joseph Kabanda of Baylor College of MedicineChildren’s Foundation

Overview

Challenges in managing supply chains to deliver health outcomes in global health contexts abound, particularly when factors beyond the control of supply chain managers such as infrastructure, port clearance delays, weather, governance issues, location of clinics, human resource capabilities, etc. all impact success. Despite such challenges, we see stories of remarkable success in improving health delivery and outcomes that leverage partnerships between organizations, and in cooperation with governments, NGOs and donors, deploying innovative and appropriate technology and human resource practices. We seek to recognize such organizations by celebrating & sharing practices that have delivered documented success.

Call For Submissions

This document provides an outline for a submission to be considered for the prize, due on September 20, 2019.  Up to six projects will be invited to to present their work at the 12th GHSCS Summit to be held at the Hilton Hotel, 138 Rivonia Road, Sandton (S. Africa) from November 20-22, 2019. The organization with a winning submission will be recognized with a $2500 prize; all runners up will be awarded a plaque recognizing their finalist selection.   GHSCS will fund travel and registration expenses (airfare, hotel and meals) of one representative for each finalist project to attend the 12th GHSCS and present the work.  The review panel with comprise of experts with experience in global health contexts but are not involved in any of the projects themselves. This panel will review submitted projects to select the finalists and judge the final presentations to select a winner

Please note that past year finalists may re-apply but will have to include a justification of additional work and outcomes since their last submission. Past winning projects, however, are not eligible for submission.

Submissions should comprise of the following elements:

  1. Description of location, organization and project along with the duration of the project.
  2. Detailed specification of the intervention or idea that was implemented. Kinds of ideas implemented can be broad and vary from inventory systems, technology, information systems, transport, forecasting, coordination, etc.
  3. Specification of metrics used to describe & measure the impact of the project before and after; inclusion of health outcome measures in addition to supply chain measures will be particularly valued.
  4. Description of tracking, analysis, decisions made along the way as the project unfolded. Please include intermediate reports that were prepared and how the performance metrics tracked. Documentation of details can be in the form of reports, actual data sheets, delivery manifests, etc.
  5. Description of challenges faced and how they were overcome.
  6. Outline of a system, if any, of how performance of the project will continue to improve in the future.
  7. A summary of key achievements of the project. What were the key factors that enabled success?
  8. Discussion of an honest assessment of longer term sustainability of the project.
  9. What can other locations (countries or organizations) learn from your project?
  10. List the different organizations and funding entities involved, with specifics.
  11. Project author(s) organizational affiliation, emails and contact phone numbers.
  12. Length of the main submission: Not to exceed 3000 words + exhibits. Please feel free to attach any documents in the Appendix that will enable us to understand your project.

Submitting authors should be available for up to two conference calls with the review panel representatives – please provide contact phone numbers and email addresses with your application. Please email your submission documents to ghsc.summit@gmail.com  (use the subject line GHSCS Prize Submission) September 20, 2019. No late submissions will be accepted.