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Every year the IAPHL Team takes the opportunity to listen to its members to hear their thoughts and opinions about their IAPHL membership experience. This year, the IAPHL Annual Member Survey will be available for IAPHL members to take online through April 22, 2015. By taking the IAPHL Annual Member... Read more

This month’s discussion will be looking at performance based incentives (PBI) for improving supply chain effectiveness, especially in regards to central medical stores. This is also sometimes referred to as performance based financing. In this discussion we will look at how PBI was applied in Mozambique and the results of... Read more

On January 13, 2015, the question, “What academic profiles, job descriptions,and career paths do you find ideal for SC managers, in any sector? What has proven successful in your experience?” was posed on the IAPHL listserv. More than 50 IAPHL contributors with SCM experience worldwide, responded. In the following short... Read more

This 10 week course will cover a broad range of topics, starting with an introduction to the basic tenets of public health, and the importance of social determinants. Moving on, they discuss the global burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and highlight the appropriate public health responses. They then discuss the importance... Read more

In an effort to enhance reproductive health in Nigeria and support the fight against maternal and child mortality, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) donated 15 vehicles, 1000 Personal Protective Equipments (PPE), 2 laptops for the central contraceptives warehouse, equipment and other materials to the government to Nigeria. Read the full article... Read more

Despite the proliferation of projects employing the Informed Push approach to supply chain in the past few years, little has been written about this approach. This document from the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition presents a summary of an email discussion that took place on the International Association of Public Health... Read more

A new HFG report, Use of Incentives in Health Supply Chains: A Review of Results-Based Financing in Mozambique’s Central Medical Store, reviews the progress of a results-based financing (RBF) program in Mozambique aimed at strengthening the performance of the Central Medical Store. This report “explores the effects of introducing performance incentives at... Read more

During the spring and summer of 2014, Sonoco ThermSafe sponsored and managed a 26-questions survey called “Assessing The Future Of The Cold Chain Industry.” The survey is comprised of questions regarding demographics, products and services, logistics, environmental, and trends with 165 individual respondents that included manufacturers, drug distribution supply firms, wholesale distributors,... Read more

Our first moderated discussion of the year will begin on Tuesday, February 3rd. The discussion, Looking At the Past to Improve Our Future, will focus on the experiences and reflections that IAPHL members share regarding the changes and improvements they have witnessed in their supply chains over the past years.... Read more

Improving Supply Chains for Community Case Management of Pneumonia andOther Common Diseases of Childhood (SC4CCM), a five year learning projectimplemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., is ending thisweek. SC4CCM’s goal was to identify proven, simple, affordable solution toaddress the unique supply chain challenges of community health workers(CHWs). Working... Read more