Reliable supply chains are critical to uninterrupted health services. When procurement systems falter or logistics break down, whether due to natural disasters, pandemics, or geopolitical tensions, essential medicines, diagnostics, and equipment can vanish from facilities. Such stock-outs delay treatments, jeopardize patient safety, and force providers to ration or substitute critical items. Without supply-chain resilience, front-line health workers cannot respond effectively to surges in demand, leading to preventable morbidity and mortality. Robust logistics thus underpin both routine care continuity and rapid crisis response, ensuring that no interruption in supplies undermines system stability or public trust.
March 2025: GLC4HSR Annual Conclave 2025 session “Strengthening Supply Chains for Health System Resilience”
March 2024: GLC4HSR Annual Conclave 2024 session “Adopting a Multi-pronged Approach for Supply Chain Resilience”
March 2023: GLC4HSR Annual Conclave 2023 session “Ensuring the Supply of Health Goods and Technologies for Systemic Resilience”
Completed a systematic review of surveillance-system assessment approaches (manuscript under peer review).
Convened a Special Interest Group for disease surveillance and ran two expert peer-to-peer sessions.
Drafted a Blueprint for Surveillance Systems Strengthening.
Held a stakeholder roundtable to validate and refine surveillance-strengthening recommendations.
United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
The Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement, Medical Supply, and Technology Management (UPA Egypt)
The GLC4HSR welcomes the association of multiple stakeholders working towards strengthening health and other social systems.