E-DRUG: Cert Course Ensuring Product Quality in PSM, 09-14 March 2015, Bangkok (Thailand)
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Dear E-drug members,
Empower School of Health along with various partners is conducting a
"Certificate Course in Ensuring Product Quality in Procurement & Supply Chain of Health
Commodities" to be held from 09-14 March 2015 at Bangkok (Thailand). Please
find the details of the course below:
*Course objective**: *Gaining a better understanding of the fundamentals of
quality in procurement and supply chain; how to budget for quality
assurance activities in the procurement budget; drafting better policies
for ensuring quality products in public health programs; gaining hands-on
experience in writing QA plans
*Recommended participants**: *Public health professionals; supply chain /
logistics professionals working in procurement, warehousing, distribution,
policy, planning, quality assurance; community-based organisations and
treatment activists at national and local level; civil society
representatives; pharmacists; QA and laboratory professionals
*Delivery of course**: *Lectures, case studies, field trips, discussions
and peer to peer interaction
*Language*: The course will be conducted in English
*Faculty**: *International faculty with background in quality assurance,
pharmacy, medicine, management, supply chain, essential medicines, and
more. Faculty have worked closely with leading UN agencies, Global Fund,
various donor organizations and NGOs, and foundations (Gates Foundation,
CHAI, Open Society Institute, and more), and various Ministries of Health
*Where**:* Bangkok (Thailand)
*When**:* 09th – 14th March 2015
*Cost**: * Tuition fee: *1,950 *€
*Tuition fee: 1,500 € on completion of both registration and payment
before 31 January 2015*
*Tuition fee includes:*
Training, conference room, reading course material, CDROMs, certificate,
lunch, 2 coffee breaks, graduation ceremony, gala dinner and technical support
for each participant for 12 months after completion of course
*Accommodation: To be determined*
*Collaborating Organisations**:*
*Empower School of Health* has conducted Procurement and Supply Chain and
Public Health training and capacity building of institutions and
professionals in more than 30 countries across Latin America, Africa, Asia
and Europe. Empower has trained more than 6,000 people across
the world—from senior PSM experts working in finance, strategy and planning
to field staff working as stock pickers and warehouse operators
*Stop TB Partnership *was founded in 2001 with a mission is to serve every
person who is vulnerable to TB and ensure that high-quality treatment is
available to all who need it; to stop transmission of TB and to develop and
implement new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies
to stop TB. The Partnership is recognized as a unique international body
with the power to align actors all over the world in the fight against TB
*The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership *is the global framework for
co-ordinated action against malaria. The main objective of the RBM
partnership is scaling up of interventions at country level to ensure wide
spread coverage, particularly to most vulnerable population groups
*UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS*, is an innovative
partnership of ten United Nations Organizations that leads and inspires the
world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
support. UNAIDS Visions is Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination.
Zero AIDS-related deaths. Universal access to prevention, treatment, care
and support is UNAIDS programmatic goal efforts.
*Instructions for filling the interactive form attached:*
Click on the link - Download Application Form. Save the form on your
computer. Fill the form and send using your internet email to
international.course@empower.net.in
For more information and to download enrollment form kindly visit our
website www.empower.net.in
*DOWNLOADS:*
*Brochure: http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Brochure_March_2015_Bangkok(Thailand).pdf
*Application form:*
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Application_Form_March_2015_Bangkok(Thailand).pdf
*Agenda: *
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Agenda_Course_Details_March_2015_Bangkok(Thailand).pdf
*Newsletter:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Newsletter_November_2014_Goa(India).pdf
Registration must be completed by February 20, 2015
Training Co-ordinator,
Procurement and Supply Chain Management Course
international.course@empower.net.in
New Delhi, India
Professor Paul S. Lalvani,
Dean & Director, Empower (Health)
paul.lalvani@empower.net.in
Kind Regards
Nayeera Sadaf
Consultant
Empower School of Health
India
nayeera sadaf <nayeera.sadaf@empower.net.in>