Global Health Seminar: "Private Sector Engagement in Global Health: Project Last Mile"

Private Sector Engagement in Global Health – Project Last Mile

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have long played an essential role in global health.  Traditional PPPs often focus on service delivery, product development, or improved financing of global health initiatives, but new, innovative approaches continue to emerge.  In this talk, Dr. Talbert-Slagle will provide an overview of traditional PPPs in global health and then describe one novel approach, known as a "knowledge transfer partnership" that is currently underway in Tanzania, involving the transfer of supply chain management expertise from The Coca-Cola Company to the Tanzanian Medical Stores Department.  Dr. Talbert-Slagle will review implementation successes and challenges of this innovative effort to improve delivery of medicines down to the last mile, concluding with a discussion of possible opportunities for replication of the Knowledge Transfer PPP in other countries.