VillageReach is a global non-profit that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. A critical part of health care delivery is getting products to people. By building stronger public health supply chains that deliver lifesaving vaccines and medicines, people everywhere can access the health care they need to thrive. Join VillageReach’s Director of Supply Chain Tiwonge Mkandawire for conversations about what it means to have an integrated supply chain.
Supply chains of the future need to be resilient, people-centered, equitable and sustainable and VillageReach’s Integration Framework offers an avenue to achieve these attributes within a public health supply chain. Listen each month to learn about different components of integration and hear from other global health experts. Download and read our Integration Framework to learn more.
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VillageReach is a global non-profit that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. A critical part of health care delivery is getting products to people. By building stronger public health supply chains that deliver lifesaving vaccines and medicines, people everywhere can access the health care they need to thrive. Join VillageReach’s Director of Supply Chain Tiwonge Mkandawire for conversations about what it means to have an integrated supply chain.
Supply chains of the future need to be resilient, people-centered, equitable and sustainable and VillageReach’s Integration Framework offers an avenue to achieve these attributes within a public health supply chain. Listen each month to learn about different components of integration and hear from other global health experts. Download and read our Integration Framework to learn more.
During this episode Tiwonge speaks with Madeleine Ballard, executive director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, and Dickson Nassim Mbewe, a senior health surveillance assistant (community health worker) with the Malawi Ministry of Health. An important component of the VillageReach Supply Chain Integration Framework is how to get health products beyond the health facility and into the communities. An important vehicle for this is community health workers (CHWs), who are often the only contact people in hard-to-reach communities have with the public health system in Africa.
Madeleine opens the show by explaining what CHWs do and their contributions to the health system, including their huge impact in terms of saving lives. Dickson then gives his perspective as a CHW serving his community for the last 17 years, describing the preventive and curative services he provides. But CHWs can not provide these critical services without consistent access to health products. Listen to the conversation as Madeleine and Dickson discuss some of the challenges CHWs face and how to address these challenges and ensure CHWs are supervised, counted, supplied, paid and integrated into public health supply chains.
Listen now to learn more about the important role of CHWs.
Read the most recent research on CHWs access to essential medicines from CHIC.
Read VillageReach’s Supply Chain Integration Framework to learn more: www.productstopeople.org.
Read more about VillageReach’s Supply Chain for Community Health Workers solution.
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VillageReach
Community Health Impact Coalition
Dickson Nassim Mbewe
Madeleine Ballard on LinkedIn
Tiwonge Mkandawire on LinkedIn
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VillageReach is a global non-profit that works to transform health care delivery to reach everyone. A critical part of health care delivery is getting products to people. By building stronger public health supply chains that deliver lifesaving vaccines and medicines, people everywhere can access the health care they need to thrive. Join VillageReach’s Director of Supply Chain Tiwonge Mkandawire for conversations about what it means to have an integrated supply chain.
Supply chains of the future need to be resilient, people-centered, equitable and sustainable and VillageReach’s Integration Framework offers an avenue to achieve these attributes within a public health supply chain. Listen each month to learn about different components of integration and hear from other global health experts. Download and read our Integration Framework to learn more.
