2024 Summit ~ Lagos, Nigeria

Countries are working towards universal health coverage (UHC) by building resilient and equitable health systems, and investments and innovation across the healthcare value chain can accelerate this progress. The value chain refers to the system and processes required to finance, develop, manufacture, and deliver treatments and technologies to patients. Strong supply chains are the backbone of value chains and ensure that materials, information, infrastructure, human resources, and partnerships across sectors are in place to achieve UHC. Rapid technological change in data science and artificial intelligence, health systems management, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and pharmaceutical manufacturing offer tremendous opportunities to improve the healthcare value chain. At the same time, these advancements are forcing supply chains to become more environmentally sustainable and responsible. Assembling experts from government, academia, NGOs and civil society, industry, donor agencies, and multilateral organizations, GHSCS 2024 sought to highlight innovations across the value chain that move us towards UHC.