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Supply Chain Solutions for Global Health - a Survey of the Challenges, Interventions, and Innovation

Location
Internet
Term
4th Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online with Some Synchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Kevin Etter
Contact Name
Kevin Etter
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Supply Chains, once one of the world's best kept secrets, are out in the open now, come learn how they operate and facilitate our everyday lives. Prior to the pandemic, did you give much thought to how products move from being made to being used? You probably do now. Do you want to get a behind the scenes look at the critical, but often hidden, enabler of humanitarian public health systems? Supply chains allow the world to operate (or not operate) - come learn more about this all too often invisible aspect of our lives.
Explains how all Health Systems rely on and are organized around supply chains. Introduces students to the concepts, complexities, and challenges of managing modern health supply chains in a global health context. Presents the key process steps and principle competencies required to effectively manage 21st century global health supply chains that are structured around the Resiliency Model of Readiness, Response, and Recovery.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify the principle competencies and key processes required to manage complex global health supply chains.
  2. Summarize the key steps in the People that Deliver's 4 Pathways to Success from the PtD Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Theory of Change
  3. Demonstrate a real world example of the use of the 3 R's Resiliency Model for supply chains - Readiness, Response, and Recovery in a humanitarian health context
  4. Differentiate critical aspects of supply chains across varying contexts - steady state, humanitarian aid, disaster response
  5. Critique a series of case studies for effectiveness of, and application in, the broader health system design
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 20% Participation
  • 30% Homework
  • 25% Midterm
  • 25% Final Exam
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Course to be taught by Kevin Etter