Summit Schedule 2020

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vera Songwe, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)  LINK to speech

Moderator: Professor Ravi Anupindi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)

Plenary Panel 1: South-South solutions for local problems – Achieving resiliency through local partnerships and technology

Panelists: Mr. Clinton Dsouza, PICMA Africa Limited; Mr. Marasi Mwencha, Global Fund; Mr. Marlon Banda, Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia; Mr. Robert Kimbui, GPH Supply Chain, Africa operations; Ms. Sarmila Raj, USAID

Moderator: Dr. Lloyd Matowe, Pharmaceutical Systems Africa (Liberia, Nigeria & Zambia)

Contributed Talks / Prize Competition Presentations (Tracks 1-4)

Track 1: Prize Talks [1.1] Covid Action Fund for Africa, and [1.2] Optimizing supply chain management for efficiency using commodity order management system.

Track 2: COVID-19 planning and forecasting [2.1] Building robust storage capacity for vaccine’s last mile delivery, [2.2] Customizing WHO Quantification aapproach to the Tanzanian context, [2.3] Supply chain preparedness and response through approach redesign and partnership in Angola – GHSC-PSM COVID-19 pandemic experience

Track 3: COVID-19 pandemic response [3.1] Philippines: reconfiguration of the supply chain to balance equity and emergency response during the COVID-19 pandemic, [3.2] National Integrated Specimen Referral Network (NiSRN) in Nigeria: responding to the impact of COVID-19 challenges, [3.3] Lessons learned form implementing and emergency supply chain strategy during a pandemic in Tanzania

Track 4: Integration and redesign [4.1] Supply chain integration – strengthening national ownership in Malawi, [4.2] Technology, partnerships and governance that enable agility and coordination for resilient global health supply chains, [4.3] Redesigning immunization supply chains: results from three country analyses.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Global Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group and Director of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF)   LINK to speech

Moderator: Professor Ravi Anupindi on behalf of Dr. Prashant Yadav, Center for Global Development (USA) and INSEAD (France)

Plenary Panel 2: COVID-19 Vaccines for LMICs

Panelists: Ms. Jean Lee, Office of the Chief Economist for the South Asia Region; Dr. Skhumbuzo Ngozwana, South African Medical Devices Industry Association; Mr. Julian Maggini, Vaxinz, Inc; Dr. Nicaise Ndembi, University of Maryland – Institute of Human Virology

Moderator: Dr. Noel Watson, OpsMend (USA)

Track 5: Prize Talks #2 [5.1] Adaptation of a private-sector call center model for availability & visibility; [5.2] Adapting routine supply chain supportive supervision to improve health care worker capacity and supply chain management performance in the era of COVID-19.

Track 6: LMIS and digitization: [6.1] Beyond Essential Systems – Tupaia reproductive health module, [6.2] cStock for supply chain responsiveness and resilience in ASAL counties in Kenya, [6.3] Supply chain analytics in Ivory Coast

Track 7: Policy and reform: [7.1] Laying the foundation – importance of governance tools to underpin a medicine master data system, [7.2] Indonesia goes mobile to manage family planning commodities, [7.3] Every1Mobile Naijacare

Track 8: Integration and redesign: [8.1] The process of strengthening Fleet Management in the Tanzanian Medical Store Department, [8.2] Strengthening the health supply chain with drone logistics, [8.3] Data analytics and application for logistics and supply chain management in Zambia’s public health supply chain

Contributed Talks

Track 9: Human Resources: [9.1] Benin’s Young Logisticians Professional Program: implicating the next generation of supply chain professionals in strengthening pharmaceutical supply chain at health zone level in Benin, [9.2] Building data use capacity of health workers using virtual learning packages for a more responsive and resilient supply chain during COVID-19, [9.3] Developmental evaluation (DE) in practice: how DE has helped measure health worker motivation in nomadic and semi-nomadic populations in Kenya, and contributed to adaptable community based distribution programming

Track 10: COVID-19: Planning and Innovation  [10.1] Looking deep into the crystal ball. The Covid-19 demand planning story for the South African Public Health Medicine Supply Chain, [10.2] Maintaining visibility of the availability of personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic, [10.3] Using blockchain to monitor & trace medical supply-chains

Track 11: Capacity Building and Human Resources  [11.1] Capacity building of primary health care service providers as a first building block towards strengthening health supply chain: analyzing the effectiveness of partnership for sustainable supply chain processes, [11.2] How might secondment programs successfully alleviate constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa?, [11.3] Partnering with private sector to deliver medical products and personal protective equipment to the last mile during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mozambique

Track 12 Building Resiliency:  [12.1] Human resource transformation for building a resilient supply chain organisation: exploring common best practices in the African health supply chain, [Panel 12.2] Innovating for malaria supply chain resilience in a time of crisis

Plenary Panel 3: Impact of COVID-19 on regular health supply chains

Panelists: Mr. Deo Kimera, Chemonics-Ghana; Ms. Celsa Muzayire Gaju, Medical Supply, Ltd; Mr. Abraham Okore, Pyramid Pharma-Tanzania; Mr. Amit Backliwal, Pharmarack-India

Moderator: Professor Ravi Anupindi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Amer Daoudi, Senior Director of Operations, World Food Programme (WFP – Winner of 2020 Noel Peace Prize) LINK to speech.

Moderator: Professor Yehuda Bassok, University of Southern California, LosAngeles (USA)