Florence Chingwena

Zimbabwe

The Head of Pharmaceutical Services in the Harare City Health Department. She is a Public Health official, Health Procurement Specialist, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management Specialist, Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Pharmacist, with over 20 years of experience in a senior management position in both the public and private health sector. She has worked with the Donor Community in several Health Programmes and Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management activities for over 10 years. She is result-oriented, focusing on honey and not the collection of nectar.

She holds an Executive Masters in Business Management from Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, a Post Graduate Diploma in Global Health Procurement and Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management from Empower School of Health, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe.

Samson C Emelike

Nigeria

Self-motivated and progress-driven Senior Technical Officer with an extensive background in Procurement and Supply Chain Management industry, with a long-standing record of initiative and innovation. I have developed and executed strategies that I believe will bring value to any organization. Throughout the course of my career, I have honed my collaborative, leadership, and supply chain expertise in coordinating PSM activities at both national, state, and LGA levels with track records. I am an astute problem solver capable of prioritizing and managing complex projects with proficiency. My work experience involved projects funded by USAID, Global Fund, DFID, and locally funded programs.

Wango Gwe Francis

Cameroon

Diligent PSCM professional with over 8 years of experience in PSCM, particularly in resource-limited settings. Proficient communication, negotiating and multi-disciplinary interactive skills developed through years of international correspondence and interaction with manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, transit companies, and customs. Facilitator, mentor, lecturer, and examiner with experience in curriculum design for lower/middle cadre pharmacy personnel in production, health center, and hospital settings. Experience in designing short-term communication & pharmacy courses for nursing/pharmacy students. Focused and results-oriented. Value for family and empathy for the underprivileged. Willing to learn at every turn & open to sharing knowledge unreservedly.

Morton Khunga

Zambia

Procurement Supply Chain Management Specialist, National TB/Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health – Zambia. Holds Masters of Supply Chain Management from the University of Bolton as well as Bachelors of Pharmacy and an MPH from the University of Zambia. He has 10 years of experience in TB and HIV program planning, management, implementation, and review. He has worked with WHO/AFRO as a PSM consultant focusing on commodities for Hepatitis, HIV, CHBC, STI, and TB programs.

Abdirisak Artan

Somalia

Motivated public health professional with over 6 years of experience in the field, currently works in the health information system and disease surveillance at the Ministry of Health, Puntland, Somalia. Mr. Abdirisak got his Master's degree at Lincoln University of Malaysia in Public Health in Nursing. He shares part of his time to deliver public lectures, training in academia to develop the capacity of medical and health science students; he has published two academic papers in his field.

Evans Mwemezi

Tanzania

Public Health Supply Chain Specialist with more than thirteen years of experience in the field. Apart from being a health professional; he is also a linguist capable of speaking four international languages fluently. These are Kiswahili, English, French, and German. He was trained as a Pharmacist at the University of Dar es Salaam. He’s also a scholar in International Cooperation and Development. He has accomplished a number of assignments in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Medicines Registration, Program Reviews, and Program Manuals Development.

Ivan Segawa

Uganda

A self-driven pharmacy professional committed to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases since 2012. A wide range of research experience in HIV, tuberculosis, and global health supply chain management. Graduated from Makerere University College of Health Sciences in 2015. He is passionate about global health and logistics management especially targeted for infectious diseases.

Ritu Halder

Nepal

A marketing communication and policy advocacy expert to private organizations, trade associations, not-for-profit organizations, and foreign governments, with more than two decades of experience in global marketing and sales, strategic communication, learning and development, talent management, and business planning. Some of the organizations she has worked with are Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Convergys India Services, the UN Women’s Guild, Vienna, international consortiums, and several others.

Ayyaz Gul Kiani

Pakistan

A public health pharmacist with more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector management at the senior level. His professional areas of expertise consist of pharmaceutical and public health policy and practice, supply chain management, and managing large-sized, complex, cross-cultural project teams. He has worked with international agencies like WHO, DFID, UNDP, CWS, USAID, and the Universities of Amsterdam, Liverpool, Punjab, and Baluchistan. He represented Pakistan in the 58th World Health Assembly of the WHO in UN Headquarters at Geneva in 1998 and served as an amicus curie to the Chief Justice of Pakistan in a landmark case concerning pharmaceutical product quality and services.

Dr. Albert Njamen Njanke

Cameroon

Dr. Njanke is a highly qualified expert in Supply Chain, Procurement and Logistics with 30 years national / international experience offering services to International Organizations. His areas of expertise include Logistics and Transportation, Capacity building, Sourcing and Procurement, Training, Planning, Strategic Analysis and Distribution.

Danjuma Ahmed Haruna

Nigeria

A public health pharmacist with more than 6 years of experience and specialty/expertise in supply chain managements of public health/global health commodities (HIV, Malaria, TB, MNCH, Vaccines/Immunization, Nutrition, IPC and emergency responses). He has worked to ensure commodity security and universal health coverage in all kinds of humanitarian dispositions. He has strong familiarity of national supply chain managements systems of MoH (NHMIS), LMIS and MCLS. He also has years of experience in Project Management, Economic Evaluation, Health Systems Strengthening and Financial Analysis in public health. He is also an advocate of Drug Revolving Fund with Health Insurance to ensure sustainable, affordable and accessible healthcare for all.

Wendy Gilda Nyamusana

Kenya

A pharmacist with experience in clinical research, community and hospital pharmacy practice. Her areas of expertise include medication dispensing, prescription record review, inventory management, supply chain management, and scientific research. She has been working with the African Mission Healthcare to advise principal investigators on the requirements and specifications required by research regulatory bodies.