Strong Supply Chains Save Lives, Especially During a Pandemic

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Strong Supply Chains Save Lives, Especially During a Pandemic

As countries around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, already strained health supply chains are being further challenged. 

As countries around the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, already strained health supply chains are being further challenged. These supply chains are critical for ensuring that frontline health workers have the supplies and medicines they need to manage the virus and continue equally important routine health services.

In this issue of Strong Supply Chains Save Lives, we highlight how JSI is strengthening supply chains during this pandemic. In addition, we explore how our community can apply lessons from the COVID-19 response to improve health supply chains of the future.  

On behalf of the entire JSI Center for Health Logistics team, we wish you and your families health and safety during these uncertain and challenging times.

Sincerely,

Edward Wilson
Director, JSI Center for Health Logistics
Looking ahead: Health Care Supply Chains after the Pandemic

COVID-19 is likely to have a profound and long-term effect on global health care supply chains, much as HIV did. JSI has been talking with collaborators about what some of the changes might be and how they may affect in-country supply chains, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. In Health Care Supply Chains after the Pandemic, JSI’s Paul Dowling highlights some of these likely changes and posits that current disruptions could ultimately strengthen health care supply chains.
Procuring Essential Items for Zambia’s COVID-19 Response

As countries scrambled to obtain the necessary supplies and commodities to control COVID-19, Zambia was no different. USAID tasked JSI's DISCOVER-Health project with procuring essential items to support the emergency response. A three-part blog series describes the challenges and the project’s solutions to help the country secure essential COVID-19 supplies.
Accelerating Ethiopia’s Production of Critical COVID-19 Supplies

JSI, through the USAID Digital Health Activity, has created systems to support the Ethiopian Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to accelerate the availability of critical personal protective items. We have also developed a simplified process to expedite licensing and registration for COVID-19 supplies.
A COVID-19 Vaccine will be a Game-changer. Then What? 

In this blog, JSI’s Wendy Prosser and Lora Shimp outline the key supply chain considerations for introducing a COVID-19 vaccine. They highlight the challenges of introducing a vaccine that will be in high demand, the potential cold chain requirements, and how already stressed supply chains will be further strained as countries introduce a vaccine.

A Network of Supply Chain Professionals Share Practical Tools and Solutions during COVID-19

Through the JSI-managed International Association of Public Health Logisticians (IAPHL), a community of more than 8,000 professionals from more than 150 countries, we are facilitating multiple moderated discussions in which members ask and answer each other’s pandemic-related questions and suggest tools and resources to support supply chain operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join the IAPHL community.
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