Program

2023 Conference Theme

Localisation in Practice

Our event serves as an opportunity for practitioners, aid organisations, government representatives, innovators, academics, and others to learn and engage on challenges and opportunities relevant to today’s health and humanitarian supply chains. It is an ideal platform for sponsors and innovators to show-case their brand to a wide audience and link to a valuable annual cycle of follow-on activities. The event will be driven by case studies and discussions with a mix of high level and practical engagement.

The HHL will address key points raised last year such as the need for stronger collaboration and national-level partnerships, increased local knowledge sharing, greater local market visibility to improve aid supply chain management and better donor coordination.

Conference Subthemes/Topics

• Sustainable Local Procurement: focusing on barriers to selling into the public health and aid sectors, working to strengthen policy around local manufacturing, quality assurance challenges, environmental issues and support to local suppliers.
• Health Supply Chain Capacity Development: highlighting how the current public health and aid systems can better support health service logistics and workforce capacity development in conflict zones, fragile states and developing economies, with a focus on critical delivery mechanisms such as mass vaccination.
• Last Mile Delivery: showcasing the latest product innovations in transport technology but also ways to address the challenges in accessing remote communities due to poor infrastructure, outdated transport policies and a lack of resources.

Emerging technology and sustainability will be a key focus and well as a special focus on human resource and technological capacity required to support the roll out of the latest malaria vaccine. 

In addition to the main talks on, we will be hosting an Innovation Hub to showcase, for example, use of the latest pathogen detection methods based on electrochemical biosensor technologies, cold-chain / temperature controlled storage solutions, and emergency response capabilities.