Examples of How Coordination Helps Improve the Delivery of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies for an Effective Humanitarian Response

Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 8 AM ET 

 Dear colleagues and friends,

We are glad to announce the sixth and final technical discussion in the HCL Community Education Series organized by the Humanitarian Commodities Logistics Community of Practice. With support from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), we will discuss the benefits of coordination for improving the availability of pharmaceuticals and other health products. We will share experiences from the field to understand the enabling factors for effective coordination and look at recent examples that led to tangible results and increased supply chain management (SCM) coordination in humanitarian and crisis settings.

We are delighted to be joined by Edith Muturi, health and nutrition advisor from Relief International (RI) in Yemen. Edith has worked in humanitarian settings for more than 8 years, implementing health and nutrition projects with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in different countries including Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, and Yemen. She has experience responding to high magnitude emergencies and has supported medical supply chains in emergency settings, including coordination with other NGOs, ministries of health, and UN agencies through clusters and consortia systems. 

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Humanitarian Commodities Logistics (HCL) Community

If you work for a humanitarian response organization, we invite you to join the HCL community, a subgroup of the International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL). If you are not already an IAPHL member, you can join at https://iaphl.org/membership/. Once a member of IAPHL, you can join the HCL community by clicking on the Humanitarian Commodities Logistics link and requesting membership. The HCL community is a place to share information, learnings, and anything else that is of interest to those working in health supply chains in the humanitarian context. Supply chain experts from JSI, as well as other colleagues, will be available to answer questions and discuss issues related to supply chain management in humanitarian and emergency settings.

This webinar is hosted by the Building Capacity to Improve Health Commodity Management in Humanitarian and Disaster Settings project, with support from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).  

This webinar is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID/BHA or the United States Government.