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May
18
2023
10:00—11:00 AM ET / 3:00-4:00 PM BST
May 08, 2023
Swift and effective responses to disease outbreaks require a versatile toolkit. Pooled procurement can play a key role in enabling rapid access to safe, effective, and affordable medical countermeasures like vaccines and therapeutics. This procurement arrangement is associated with benefits such as ...
Nov
14
2022
VIRTUAL
8:30—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 1:30—5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
October 28, 2022
Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency, and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer coun...
Mar
23
2022
11:00—12:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
March 15, 2022
Well-functioning supply chains to deliver medicines, vaccines, and other health products are the backbone of the health system. Continued challenges in the financing, procurement, and distribution of health products lead to frequent stockouts at health clinics, putting treatment programs at risk and...
Jan
28
2022
11:00—12:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 24, 2022
Providing patients with high-quality essential medicines requires a well-functioning procurement, distribution, and regulatory system. However, in many low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), the centrally run supply chain is unable to provide health facilities with uninterrupted supply lead...
Dec
15
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Eastern Time
December 06, 2021
There have been several explorations and a few impactful uses of Machine Learning (ML) and advanced analytics during the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of the discussion around the use of ML has centered around their use for case projections, accelerating the development of vaccines and treatments, and ne...
Nov
4
2021
11:00—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
October 27, 2021
After earlier calls for transparency in the global deployment of COVID-19 vaccine, we’ve seen progress: in addition to UNICEF’s COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard launched in December 2020, the Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Diagnostics – launched in June 2021 – houses a central reposito...
Jan
26
2021
11:00—12:00 PM ET
January 13, 2021
Join Judy Woodruff and Charles Kenny as they discuss Kenny’s new book, The Plague Cycle, a history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease. The Plague Cycle examines the relationship between civilization, globalization, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia through to ...
Dec
4
2020
10:00—11:00 AM ET
November 23, 2020
Supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 are twin threats, both to lives and livelihoods. We have focused some of our past discussions on COVID-19 and medical supply chains. Supply chain disruptions are also aggravating to the economic effects of the crisis. Companies must ensure the safety of worke...
Nov
12
2020
10:00—11:00 AM ET
November 04, 2020
Providing patients/end customers with high-quality medicines and health products in a timely and cost-effective manner requires well-functioning supply chains. Poor forecast accuracy impedes many improvement efforts for healthcare supply chain. More accurate demand forecasts using new predictive ana...