2024 Sponsors

Founded in 1975, Chemonics is one of the world’s leading international development consulting firms. In 95 countries around the globe today, our network of 5,000 specialists pursue a higher standard in development, working with clients, partners, and communities to ask the right questions and deliver innovative solutions to the world’s most intractable problems.

Logenix is broadly recognized as the preeminent provider of global logistics services for public health and development infrastructure to and throughout the developing world. Our decades of comprehensive experience and success operating on-time and on-budget are unparalleled.  Logenix brings evolutionary progress to the world’s most critical supply chains.

MEBS Global Reach is a specialized healthcare logistics company delivering duty-free cargo to Africa. A key provider to USAID contractors, the U.N. and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we have deep experience shipping cold chain and healthcare commodities in compliance with Good Distribution Practices from origins throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

Working with partners globally and locally, JSI increases access to health products and services by accelerating decision making, collaboratively designing and implementing improvements, integrating health program and health system perspectives into solution design, and taking an end-to-end view of supply chain challenges and opportunities.

At Kaizan Institute, we work side-by-side with our customers at all organizational levels to help them make healthcare better and safer for the public.Besides being all about the people, the digital age and legislation are now the key forces driving the current healthcare landscape. The sector’s mission is to provide a consistent, safe service and, at the same time, ensure an economically profitable business. 

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone.  We work with governments and partners in Africa to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products and services to the under-reached. We are locally driven and globally connected, with a goal of reducing inequities in access to health care. Click here for video.

The Technology and Operations Department at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business is recognized as a world-class source of knowledge and research. Michigan Ross faculty merge theory and practice to study and improve the science of value creation and its enabling technologies. Our research and courses explore how operations, supply chain management, and technology touch every part of an organization to create value, for both firms and society. Read more about our department here.