Products to People: Episode 4 – Supply Chain Workforce Professionalization
Public health supply chains only function because of the people doing the work. This means that a high-performing public health supply chain that integrates multiple health products across all levels and all sectors needs a suitably skilled health supply chain...Technical Note: Leveraging Community Health Workers to Vaccinate in Malawi
Leveraging community health workers to vaccinate in Malawi: A unique health workforce approach to increase routine immunization coverage.
Products to People: Episode 3 – Increasing Private Sector Capacity
Achieving universal health coverage in Africa by 2030 is only possible if governments utilize all available public and private sector resources. A report last year by the World Health Organization noted that a mindset shift is needed in the global health sector to...
A Real-life Superhero: A Malawi CHW
When Dickson Nansima Mbewe was young he remembers the community health worker (CHW) who helped people in his village in the Mulanje districts in southern Malawi. “I was so interested to know what this health care worker does in our area.” He saw her giving...
As a Crow flies, the Drone flies: Broadening the Arc of Awareness for Supply Chain Leaders
When we embark on a journey we often bring more with us than just our luggage. We bring our past experiences, knowledge and perceptions, but we also need to bring a willingness to take in new insights and adapt our thinking. As I set out on my recent journey – a...
Products to People: Episode 2 – Supplies Beyond the Health Facility
For many hard-to-reach communities getting reliable access to quality health care can be challenging. In Africa, over 400 million people receive the majority of their health services at the community level because they live too far away from the closest health...
Products to People featured in Washington Global Health Alliance FieldNotes
Tiwonge Mkandawire, Director of Supply Chain at VillageReach, is hosting a four-episode podcast called Products to People: An Integrated Public Health Supply Chain. The show does a deep dive into VillageReach’s Supply Chain Integration Framework, which provides a...
Products to People: Episode 1 – Strategy & Stewardship
People everywhere deserve access to quality health care. But without the reliable availability of health products people cannot get the health care they need, when and where they need it. Supply chain integration helps countries ensure communities have access to...