Welcoming Speech by Dr. Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye
Honorable Minister of Health and Social Action, Senegal
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr. Amadou Alpha Sall
Executive Director, Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Ms. Rebecca Stevens Alder
Head of Global Public Health Partnerships and International Public Affairs, Sanofi
Mr. Faustin Mukena
CEO, Africa Resource Centre
CONFERENCE THEME:
RE-IMAGINING HEALTH SUPPLY CHAIN AND SYSTEMS FOR EQUITY, RESILIENCY, and COUNTRY OWNERSHIP
Welcome to the 15th Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS. Looking beyond the pandemic, it is now being widely recognized that health systems, and supply chains supporting them, need to be transformed to address health issues in a holistic and integrated manner ensuring equitable access and increasing self-sufficiency. We need to develop next generation resilient health systems and the supply chains that support them, leveraging partnerships, bottom-up innovations, financing, workforce, and governance models to ensure equitable access to healthcare for all. A holistic and systems-based approach towards health systems and supply chains is needed to ensure end-to-end service delivery supporting diagnostics, essential medicines, and health care products to address current health issues as well as the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. The summit features keynote / plenary speakers, panel sessions, contributed talks and poster sessions to explore these issues.