Dr. Iain Barton

Iain Barton is a leading expert in developing and implementing best practice supply chain functions in Global Health.

A committed South African, Iain is a medical doctor with 10 years of clinical practice and 20 years in healthcare supply chain management – specializing in pharmaceutical supply chain solution design and market-shaping start-ups.

Iain is Executive Vice-President – Healthcare for Imperial Logistics, coordinating strategy, innovation, and solution design across all of Imperial Logistics’ healthcare businesses as well as driving new market expansion.

Iain was responsible for developing the concept of Regional Distribution Centers to support the scale-up of PEPFAR and of the Supply Chain Control Tower that supports the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism for ARVs. Other innovations developed under Iain’s leadership include Unjani Clinics, Warehouse-in-a-Box, Clinic-in-a-Box, and SSiH – a mega-distributor model enhancing medicine access across African markets.

Iain has served on the Advisory Boards of Merck For Mothers, SA’s Public Health Enhancement Fund, People That Deliver and The Africa Resource Center (ARC).