How Can Thinking and Working Politically Strengthen Your Health Commodity Supply Chain?

Supply chain practitioners are motivated by a shared goal: to see that people can reliably obtain the health products they need, when and where they need them. Despite best efforts, however, political factors often pose a barrier to fully achieving the impact we strive for.  

Join the USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) to learn how thinking and working politically and using political economy analysis (PEA) can strengthen efforts to reform health commodity supply chains. Thinking and working politically recognizes that solutions that appear technically sound may not work if political incentives are absent or insufficient. We’ll share our new, easy-to-read primer discussing the value of thinking and working politically and when and how to apply PEA to fortify supply chain technical assistance and reforms. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers with our panelists. 

Presenters 

• Shipra Srihari, Health Systems Strengthening Advisor, Abt Associates 

• Tom Brown, Technical Director, Global Health Supply Chain, Abt Associates 

Panelists 

• David Jacobstein, Democracy Specialist, Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, USAID 

• Tiffany Marshall Cummins, Program Analyst II, Commodity Security & Logistics Division, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID 

• Bonface Fundafunda, Regional Director, East Africa, Africa Resource Center 

• Obua Thomas Ocwa , AG. Registrar, Pharmacy Board / Senior Pharmacist, Uganda Ministry of Health