E-DRUG: Course Ensuring Product Quality in Procurement & Supply Chain 16-21 June 2014, Nairobi (Kenya)
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Dear E-drug members,
Greetings!!
Empower School of Health along with various partners is conducting a
Certificate Course in Ensuring Product Quality in Procurement & Supply Chain of Health Commodities
from 16-21 June 2014 in Nairobi (Kenya).
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_brochure_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
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 - Nairobi, Kenya
When - 16th - 21st June 2014
Cost - Tuition fee: 1,950 Euro
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
Strathmore Business School is a premier business school in Kenya offering
high quality MBA and other executive management programmes. Its mission is
to provide service to society through developing virtuous leaders by
providing world-class executive management education in a local setting
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) is a humanitarian relief organisation.
Its mission is to work with vigor and compassion through their networks and
with communities to prevent and alleviate human suffering and save lives of
the most vulnerable
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)
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:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/QA_Application_Form_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
Click on the above link to Download Application FormĀ.
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_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
Agenda:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Agenda_Course_details_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
Application form:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Application_Form_June_2014_Nairobi.pdf
Newsletter:
http://www.empower.net.in/webimages/pdf/QA_Newsletter_February_2014_Hyderabad_India.pdf
Registration must be completed by May 31, 2014
Co-ordinator
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
nayeera sadaf <nayeera.sadaf@empower.net.in>