E-DRUG: Certificate Course QA in PSM chain February 17-22, India
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Certificate course in ensuring quality in procurement and supply chain management.
Empower, USPharmacopeia, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Stop TB, and more
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 (USP, Pharmexcil, etc), and foundations (Gates Foundation, CHAI, Open Society Institute, and more), and various Ministries of Health
Where: Hyderabad, India
When: 17th – 22nd February 2014
Cost: Tuition fee: 1,950 €
Tuition fee: 1,500 € on completion of registration before 31 December 2013 / or President Kufuor's Scholarship (for low-income African countries)
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 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
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is a scientific nonprofit organization that sets standards for the identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements manufactured, distributed and consumed worldwide. Establishing a presence in India has allowed USP to pursue collaborative opportunities with leaders in India’s pharmaceutical and foods sectors.
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)
Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) is an organization under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India. It is responsible for the promotion and oversight of pharmaceutical export from India
Partners in Population and Development (PPD) is an inter-governmental alliance of 25 developing countries mandated to promote South-South Cooperation in the area of Reproductive Health, Population and Development. The organization is a Permanent Observer at the United Nations General Assembly and has Diplomatic Status in Bangladesh
Concept Foundation is an international non-governmental and not-for-profit organization. Concept supports work on the quality of reproductive health medicines and the introduction and promotion of essential healthcare products around the world specifically low income countries
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_India_Feb_2014.pdf
Application form: http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Application_Form_February_2014_India.pdf
Agenda: http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Agenda_India_February_2014.pdf
Newsletter: http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/PSCM_November2013_Mauritius.pdf
Deadline
Registration must be completed by January 31, 2014
Co-ordinator,
Procurement and Supply Chain Management Course
international.course@empower.net.in
New Delhi, India
+91 9313479762
Professor Paul S. Lalvani,
Dean & Director, Empower School of Health
paul.lalvani@empower.net.in
Paul Lalvani <paullalvani@yahoo.com>