E-DRUG: Certificate Course: Ensuring Product Quality in Procurement & Supply Chain Nairobi, June
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Certificate Course in Ensuring Product Quality in Procurement
& Supply Chain of Health Commodities, 16-21 June 2014, Nairobi (Kenya)
*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*: Nairobi, Kenya
*When*: 16th - 21st June 2014
*Cost*: Tuition fee: 1,950 EURO
*Tuition fee*: 1,500 EURO on completion of both registration and payment
before 30 April 2014
*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: We will suggest a few hotels near the conference venue. All
participants must make their own bookings
*Collaborating Organisations*:
Empower School of Health's vision is to promote access to quality-assured
global health commodities. We work with health professionals from more
than 30 countries to strengthen institutional capacity of global health
programs. We also conduct assessments, research and provide advice to
donors, governments and UN agencies on sourcing, logistics, pricing,
quality, drug regulations, catalyzing local production and technology
transfer. Empower is actively involved with several African Drug Regulatory
Authorities in helping to build their capacity
Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS) provides medicines, medical
supplies and quality assurance services to more than 1800 health across
several countries in Africa. MEDS comprise of a WHO pre-qualified quality
control laboratory since 2009 and an ISO 9001:2008 for warehouse and
distribution centre
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
The John A. Kufuor Foundation was established in August 2009 by President
John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana. The Foundation's
areas of focus is Leadership, Governance and Development (including health)
*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/QA_brochure_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
*Application form*:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Agenda_Course_details_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
*Agenda*:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Application_Form_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
*Newsletter*:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Newsletter_February_2014_Hyderabad_India.pdf
Registration must be completed by *May 31, 2014*
*Co-ordinator,*
Procurement and Supply Chain Management Course
international.course@empower.net.in
New Delhi, India
+91 9313479762
Skype: info@empower.net.in
Professor Paul S. Lalvani,
Dean & Director, Empower School of Health
paul.lalvani@empower.net.in
Thank You
Kind Regards
Nayeera Sadaf
Empower School of Health
India
+91 88 2601 1477
nayeera sadaf <nayeera.sadaf@empower.net.in>