Improving Maternal Health by Addressing Stockouts
2021
This case traces the development of a series of initiatives to intended to reduce stockouts of family planning commodities in Senegal’s public health system and the eventual scale-up of the redesigned supply chain. After exploring early efforts to overhaul the supply chain, it describes how the Gates Foundation, along with others, supported the launch of the Informed Push Model with Third Party Logisticians (IPM-3PL), which proved to reduce stockouts dramatically. Despite significant initial support from both government ministries and international donor agencies, the program did not survive the transition to a fully government-run model and was eventually discontinued in 2019.
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate (1) the benefits and challenges of transitioning aspects of a public health supply chain between push and pull models, (2) the trade-offs of private sector integration in public health supply chains, (3)How the management and financing structure of a public health supply chain impacts its efficacy and scalability, and (4) the need for cross-sector and intragovernmental collaboration for effective supply chain management.
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Improving Maternal Health by Addressing Stockouts
Source:
Rosenberg J, Ahmad I, Sharara N, Weintraub R. Improving Maternal Health by Addressing Stockouts: Integrating the Private Sector into the Public Health Supply Chain in Senegal. Global Health Delivery Project, Harvard Business Publishing 2021. https://www.globalhealthdelivery.org/publications/improving-maternal-health-addressing-stockouts-integrating-private-sector-public.