Connecting for innovation and equity in global health
On December 16, Friends of the Global Fight and the Alliance hosted a virtual private dialogue, “Leveraging AI for Efficient, Resilient Supply Chains in Global Health,” to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving medical supply chains worldwide. The event brought together technology innovators and supply chain, digital tech, and private sector partnership leads from The Global Fund, along with other members of the Friends Private Sector Advisory Council.
Join us on December 16 for “Leveraging AI for Efficient, Resilient Supply Chains in Global Health” — a private dialogue between Friends of the Global Fight’s Private Sector Advisory Council, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and the Global Fund Secretariat management on the potential of Global Fund’s use of AI in supply chains.
The Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Salient Advisory, and Alliance member Population Services International examined the findings of Salient’s recently released market intelligence report on commercially-driven innovations in health care supply chains in Africa. The report results from a longitudinal study of more than 80 digital health innovators in African health technology ecosystems. Findings from innovating early-stage start-ups to established companies like mPharma inform the report, which highlights key trends shaping the growth and impact of digitized distribution in health across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
Join Roche Diagnostics for their “Unlocking Partnership Excellence in Healthcare Supply Chains” event, which will delve into a vendor’s role in mitigating risk and ensuring reliable healthcare supply.
Join Roche Diagnostics for their panel discussion, Supply Chain and Effective Vendor Partnerships. This session will explore the healthcare supply chains and vendor partnerships. The event aims to help attendees understand the significance of strong vendor partnerships in optimizing supply chain efficiency and learn how to evaluate vendors, explore strategies for building strong and collaborative relationships with vendors to enhance supply chain performance, learn about the best practices for managing vendor relationships and mitigating risks in your supply chain, and gain insights into the latest trends and technologies shaping vendor partnerships and supply chain management.
Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign in welcoming Dr Harris, a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College London, to discuss his new book focused on the potential of low cost healthcare solutions from low income countries. The book presents a pathway for the UK’s National Health Service to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support. He will share examples of simple, frugal, high quality alternatives to current practice.
Read key takeaways. To start the new year and gather our global health community together, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance invites its members to a fireside chat with Dr. Raj Panjabi, followed by a networking reception at 6:30-8:30pm PT, Wednesday, January 10, at...
oin the Bay Area Global Health Alliance at the renowned J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference for a panel discussion which will explore how forward-thinking companies and investors are strategically positioning themselves amidst demographic shifts and evolving markets – navigating through strategic investments and cultivating novel partnerships to build value for their organizations and diverse stakeholders.
Dr. Raj Panjabi, a prominent physician, entrepreneur, and former White House official, shared his rich experiences and insights with the global health community at a fireside chat hosted by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance at Accenture’s San Francisco office on January 10. The chat and reception immediately followed the Alliance’s rich panel on healthcare in emerging markets held at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
On Wednesday, January 10, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance hosted a panel discussion, Reimagining Healthcare in Emerging Markets: The Future of Healthcare Innovation and Investment at the renowned J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
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The Alliance and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria brought together African health supply-chain innovators and global health stakeholders from multiple sectors to discuss how health supply chains are working to deliver equitable access to health in Africa. The dialogue was attended by 80 Alliance members and participants, including The Global Fund, Salient Advisory, Nivi, mPharma, Xetova, Chevron, JSI, Gilead, Stanford, BMGF, Vestergaard, Pathfinder, Americares, and Merck. The goal was to elevate the lessons learned from multi-stakeholder partnerships, especially from local innovators in Africa.
On August 8, the Alliance hosted Salient Advisory for a presentation of the key findings, trends, and recommendations outlined in their latest market intelligence report. This report follows Salient Advisory’s pan-African landscaping of nearly 350 digitally-enabled health supply chain innovators. The discussion highlighted challenges and opportunities surrounding scale, partnerships, and access to funding within Africa’s digital health supply chain ecosystem.
On August 8, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance hosted Salient Advisory for a presentation on the findings from their latest market intelligence report that provided insights on funding trends, uptake of digital supply chain solutions by governments, the diverse range of identified supply chain solutions, and more. The report is the first pan-African landscape of health supply chain innovators on the continent and tracks nearly 350 technology-enabled innovators digitizing supply chain processes in Africa.
“Locally tailored innovations are showing immense promise to yield benefits for healthcare in African and other low- and middle-income countries,” writes Friends of the Global Fight in its insights report stemming from a convening of African health supply-chain innovators discussing how supply chains can deliver equitable access to health.