Description of funded research paper for Gates Foundation on the subject of "Patient-Centric Healthcare Supply Chains in sub-Saharan Africa: State of the Art and Possible Implications

Ward, Peter M.

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http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/            Original citation: Ward, Peter M. (2014) Working with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation : what and how. In: Cafe Enterprise, University of Warwick, UK.  Permanent WRAP url: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59440       Copyright and reuse: The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions.  Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners.  To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.  Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.  Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way.  A note on versions: The version presented in WRAP is the published version or, version of record, and may be cited as it appears here.  For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: publications@warwick.ac.uk  Digital Manufacturing, Technologies and HealthcareWorking with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:What and howPeter WardWhat I did I wrote a report:– Patient-Centric Healthcare Supply Chains in sub-Saharan Africa: State of the Art and Possible Implications 27 pages (including 10 pages of references)– Literature review and implications Drug product design Drug supply chain ICT enablement Business models– Main conclusion Further research required into patient drug adherence in SSA Gates Foundation paid for 10 days of my time, plus travel to healthcare conference in Addis AbabaHow did it happen – 1 Almost 10 years of experience working on supply chain projects in sub-Saharan Africa– SMS for Life, Tanzania– iTSCi, DR Congo– eZICS, Zambia Presented on SMS for Life at Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS), Rwanda, in Nov 2012– Attended a session on how to improve the conference– As well as offering my ideas, started talking about my PhD research to the chairHow did it happen – 2 I provided further ideas and information later He took a job as Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationin early 2013 In July 2013 he emailed:– As part of our Foundation strategic review for public health supply chains we could do with a literature review in topics that may overlap somewhat with your own PhD research. If it did would you be available to prepare something for us… I arranged a 3-way call with my supervisor to agree termsHow did it happen – 3 We agreed a price for 10 days’ work, including being funded to attend the GHSCS in Nov 2013– I drove the legal and contractual aspects… I wrote and delivered the report At the GHSCS we reviewed it and it was accepted– It should be included in a Foundation report in Spring 2014 Funding may also be provided for my field research in sub-Saharan AfricaLessons Find opportunities to speak to people who might be interested in your work, whether academic or not Offer them information which is useful to them, and share your research ideas Keep in touch with them!– LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc Be ready to do some extra work to deliver what they ask for, but don’t do it for freeDigital Manufacturing, Technologies and HealthcareThank youBlog post here: http://www.businessinnovationgroup.org/working-with-the-gates-foundation/Report should be on WRAP soon

Working with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation : what and how

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Working with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation : what and how

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