E-DRUG: Announcement USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Competition Prize Winners
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Hi all,
We would love for you to join an upcoming Center for Global Development
Webinar on Improving Global Health Forecasting: Data Science, Advanced
Algorithms & Partnerships, where we will also announce the Prize Winners
for USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Competition. November 12th at 10am
Eastern USA Time.
Overview of the Intelligent Forecasting Competition:
https://competitions4dev.org/forecastingprize/
Find the time in your time zone: https://tinyurl.com/USAIDEventTime
MORE INFORMATION ON THE EVENT:
Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:00AM - 11:00AM ET
USAID recently launched the Intelligent Forecasting Competition, which
seeks to identify and test more accurate methods of predicting future
contraceptive use at health service delivery sites in Cote d'Ivoire. At an
upcoming webinar hosted by the Center for Global Developments, USAID will
announce the winners of the Intelligent Forecasting Prize. Join us!
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 analytics & machine learning tools can help reduce stockouts and
minimize waste/expiry. They can also reduce the time spent by clinic level
healthcare workers in forecasting and ordering, freeing them to focus on
improving other aspects of care delivery.
This event brings together senior global health leaders and a group of
experts, including USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Prize Winners, to
discuss the latest efforts in bringing advanced analytics to improve demand
forecasting in healthcare supply chains.
Speakers
Professor Samba Mamadou, Directeur General de la Sante et de l'Hygiene
Publique de Cote d'Ivoire
Dr. Alma Golden, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health,
USAID
Alessandro de Luca, CIO Merck Healthcare at Merck Group
Ramatu Abdulkadir, Executive Secretary, Kaduna State Health Supplies
Management Agency, Nigeria
Glenn Milano, Senior Forecasting Lead, Office of Population and
Reproductive Health, USAID
Winners of the USAID Intelligent Forecasting Prize
Very best,
Kevin
Kevin Pilz, Senior Supply Chain Advisor
Email: kpilz@usaid.gov