A presentation by Helena Walkowiak, Principal Technical Advisor for SIAPS, on December 6 2017.
What Gets Defined, Gets Measured: A Definition and Framework for Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening
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Pharmaceutical management considerations for expanded coverage of essential health services and financial protection programs
The UN adoption of the SDGs in 2015 signaled a strong commitment of member countries to the expanded access to essential health service agenda and definitively recognized the critical role of medicines in achieving UHC. The SDGs call for countries to “achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care … Read more
Special preview: A new tool to measure pharmaceutical systems strengthening
By Helena Walkowiak and Maura Soucy Brown In SIAPS’ upcoming webinar on defining and measuring pharmaceutical systems strengthening (PSS), we’ll talk briefly about the development of a new tool that SIAPS and its partners are piloting. It’s intended to help the field measure the impact of PSS efforts. Some background on this activity: SIAPS has … Read more
What Gets Defined, Gets Measured: Definitions and a Framework for Measuring Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening
SIAPS is presenting its webinar “What Gets Defined, Gets Measured: Definitions and a Framework for Measuring Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening” on Wednesday, December 6, at 8:00 am EST. Although a variety of tools are available to measure different elements of pharmaceutical systems, few attempts have been made to conceptualize a “pharmaceutical system” as an entity and … Read more
Leadership Development Program Training to Strengthen Pharmaceutical Management in Sierra Leone
In May 2017, SIAPS held a Leadership Development Program (LDP) training to build the capacity of the Directorate of Drugs and Medical Supplies (DDMS), district and hospital pharmacists, and SIAPS field staff. It was the first such training in the country. The program aims to train pharmacists on basic principles and practices of good leadership, … Read more
To measure progress in “pharmaceutical systems strengthening,” we must first define that term
By Helena Walkowiak, Principal Technical Advisor, SIAPS It’s been called the pharmaceutical sector, a drug supply or management system or the medical products building block. By any name, the part of a health system that deals with ensuring access to essential medicines, vaccines and medical products and their correct use–we call it a pharmaceutical system … Read more
The Organization of an Integrated Medicine and Supply Management System in the Dominican Republic: Progress and Challenges
In 2008, a rapid study of the status of medicine supply management in the Dominican Republic determined that one of the primary causes of supply inefficiencies and stock-outs was the fragmentation of the supply process into multiple vertical chains organized around disease control programs (DCPs), such as those addressing tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. With support provided … Read more
