During this episode Tiwonge speaks with Lloyd Matowe, CEO of Pharmaceutical Systems Africa, about the importance of recognizing supply chain work as a profession in Africa. Regardless of who is managing health products, be it pharmacists or a new workforce cadre, managing supply chains is a skillset that requires training. Tiwonge and Lloyd discuss how African countries can achieve this, and stress that high-performing supply chains must have a sustainable pipeline of locally, adequately...

During this episode Tiwonge speaks with Remi Adeseun, Director of Salient Advisory about the untapped private sector potential in Africa. A number of local private sector companies are available to strengthen public health supply chain capacity in a variety of ways such as distributing health products, providing discrete activities (warehousing, transportation or cold chain maintenance) and integrating technology. However, these resources remain largely underutilized in many African...

During this episode Tiwonge speaks with Madeleine Ballard, executive director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, and Dickson Nassim Mbewe, a senior health surveillance assistant (community health worker) with the Malawi Ministry of Health. An important component of the VillageReach Supply Chain Integration Framework is how to get health products beyond the health facility and into the communities. An important vehicle for this is community health workers (CHWs), who are often the only...

In this first episode of VillageReach’s new 4-episode limited-series podcast, ‘Products to People: An Integrated Public Health Supply Chain, host Tiwonge Mkandawire welcomes Kelly Hamblin to talk about supply chain integration - what it is, and why it’s so important for building high-performing public health supply chains that are more equitable, people-centered, resilient, and sustainable.   As a Senior Program Officer for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Kelly highlights the importance...

VillageReach is a global non-profit that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. A critical part of health care delivery is getting products to people. By building stronger public health supply chains that deliver lifesaving vaccines and medicines, people everywhere can access the health care they need to thrive. Join VillageReach’s Director of Supply Chain Tiwonge Mkandawire for conversations about what it means to have an integrated supply chain.  Supply chains of the...