Speakers

Rob Addison is a Sourcing & Supply Chain Specialist at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  Founded in 2002, the Global Fund is a 21st century partnership organization that is the leading contributor of resources in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. It mobilizes and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support countries and communities most in need; with an active portfolio of over 430 active grants in over 100 countries, implemented by local experts.

Prior to the Global Fund, Rob studied at Cranfield University and was an Officer in the Royal Logistics Corps of the British Army.  He then left the British Army and began working in Europe and Asia in numerous logistics, procurement & leadership roles in global Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies (Mars & Unilever), a UK procurement consultancy (Proxima) and a global pharmaceutical, biologics/vaccines & consumer healthcare company (GlaxoSmithKline). 

Henry Bosa joined ARC as a Senior Public Health Specialist for Outbreak  & Epidemics in February 2017, bringing with him a 10 years’ experience in disease outbreak response and emerging infectious surveillance in various African countries. He started his career as a medical doctor in 2001, rising to a level of a medical superintendent of a general hospital in Uganda. Since 2007, Henry has been involved in the management of several disease outbreaks across Africa: the Ebola outbreak in Bundibugyo in Uganda (2007), the dengue fever outbreak in Mogadishu Somalia (2011), the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone (2014 and 2015), and the mysterious disease outbreak in Aweil, South Sudan (2016). Between 2011 and 2012, Henry acted as the Ministry of Health Clinical Lead during the viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda for both Ebola (2011, 2012) and Marburg (2012). In addition, Henry has extensively worked on different outbreaks including Yellow Fever, Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, meningitis and human Rift Valley Fever.

In 2015, Henry worked as an Ebola Response Preparedness Officer with World Health Organization Country office in Ghana. Prior to joining ARC, Henry was an Epidemiology Research Fellow at Uganda Virus Research Institute, where his work focused mainly on arbovirus and emerging infectious diseases surveillance systems, outbreak response, and clinical epidemiology.

Henry is a member of the Scientific Panel of Experts on the Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capacity (JMEDICC), a clinical trial on medical counter-measures to test candidate molecules in treatment of Ebola or Marburg. He holds a Masters of Science degree (Disease Control and Epidemiology Concentration) from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Makerere University in Uganda. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Control of Tropical Infectious Diseases from the University of Ancona, Italy.

James provides supply chain design expertise to The UPS Foundation and its humanitarian partners, leveraging 30 years of UPS experience as the former Global President of UPS Customer Solutions. Upon retiring from UPS, James became a Supply Chain Expert on Mission for The UPS Foundation to fulfill his passion to engage the humanitarian sector, providing support for supply chain strengthening and capacity building efforts of leading humanitarian agencies.

James initially became a loaned executive to the international aid agency, The Global Fund.  This agency is based in Geneva, Switzerland and its mission is to eradicate the disease burdens of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. After his 12 month assignment with The Global Fund, in Geneva, James has become an advisor to the following strategic partners of The UPS Foundation: GAVI, International Federation of the Red Cross, World Bank- Global Financing Facility, and the American Red Cross.

During his distinguished UPS career, James held responsibilities in Operations, Industrial Engineering, Network Planning, Special Projects, and Solutions.   The last 20 years were mostly in the Customer Solutions/Professional Services arena.  As a Regional Customer Solutions Director, James managed a teams of resources in support of strategic UPS customers in the High Tech & Retail industry verticals.  As the Customer Solutions Vice President, he helped design and deploy the Global Accounts model for UPS’s most complex and international clients. 

From 2007-2010, he was involved in the design and development of a new strategic approach for the UPS Foundation.  That strategy was an integrated approach that combined UPS logistics expertise with strategic philanthropy to strengthen public health systems and the supply chain competencies of leading Humanitarian Supply chain partners of the UPS Foundation including the American Red Cross, UNICEF, CARE, and the World Food Programme.

Dr. Diane Gashumba is the Minister of Health in the Republic of Rwanda and has been since October 4, 2016. Prior to this position, she served as the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion from March 29, 2016. Minister Gashumba is a pediatrician by profession bringing 17 years’ experience in global maternal, new-born and child health with focus to gender issues. She worked with USAID funded Rwanda Family Health Project as Senior Team leader for quality and as Deputy Chief of Party focusing on improving the quality of and access to services in Maternal, Child and New Born Health, Family Planning, Reproductive Health, HIV, Nutrition, Malaria and Gender Equality.

Dr. Gashumba has a strong background in management and clinical experience especially in managing maternal, new born and child health programs, including 3 years as Director of Hospital. As a strategist at building capacity and improving quality within the Rwandan Health system, she has led the design and implementation of the baseline assessment and midterm evaluation of the quality of Maternal New born and Child Health care in 2015 and participated to various surveys and abstracts, such as the health seeking behaviors of pregnant women, Immunitum study, integration of HIV services into MCH, and assessment of available equipment in health facilities in Rwanda.

Minister Gashumba holds a MD degree from the University of Rwanda and a Master of Medicine specializing in pediatrics.

Francis Nah Kateh, MD, MHA, MPS/HSL, FLCP is one of Liberia's leading health professionals and the Deputy Minister for Health Services, Chief Medical Officer for The Republic of Liberia. He is a surgeon with decades of experience both working in the United States and Liberia. With his education and experience, he has formulated and contributed to several health care policies in and out of Liberia. He has passionately provided leadership and management to a wide range of health policies and strategies. He has proven skills in running cost-effective patient care and establishing monitoring measures to ensure excellence in clinical care.

Dr. Kateh was most recently awarded an Honorary Doctor of Public Service Degree from his Alma Mater, MacMurray College, based on his role in the cessation of the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia. Dr. Kateh served as Deputy Incident Manager for Medical Response and Planning. He developed strategies to mitigate the Trend of Ebola in Liberia. Paramount among those was the Community Care Center Strategy and the RITE Strategy (Rapid Isolation and Treatment of Ebola) which was recognize as the most efficient and effective strategy in fighting EVD. 

Dr. Kateh is a Fellow at the Liberia College of Physician & Surgeon; President, Liberia Public Health Association; Member, Liberian Medical and Dental Association; Regional Representative, North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors; Member, North Carolina Public Health Association; Member, American College of Healthcare Executives; Member, American Public Health Association National Association of County and City Health Official (NACCHO).

Dr. Robert Kimbui is the Senior Supply chain manager, Sub Saharan Africa, Johnson and Johnson, Global Public Health (GPH) program.  He is a member of the GPH Supply chain leadership team and supports the implementation of GPH supply chain strategies across sub Saharan Africa.  He is a licensed Kenyan pharmacist and supply chain professional.

Prior to Johnson and Johnson, Robert was the Supply chain director / Chief pharmacist for Goodlife pharmacy limited, the largest retail pharmacy chain in East Africa and has supported the implementation of public health supply chain processes in his prior roles in Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Laborex Kenya ltd.

He holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Msc. Operations and Supply chain and is currently finalizing a Msc. Health Economics and policy. 
 

Dr. Lloyd Matowe currently serves as  the Executive Director and CEO of the organization Pharmaceutical Systems Africa (PSA). PSA is an international organization with multiple offices in Africa and the United States. Our mission is to work with developing countries to build sustainable capacity in pharmaceutical supply system management.

Dr. Matowe has 20 years of experience working in international development, focusing on supply chain & pharmaceutical management. Serving in these areas, he has worked both in full time and consulting positions for a number of organizations. Full-time positions included serving in management positions for Management Sciences for Health in Washington DC and for the Global Fund in Geneva. Notable examples of short-term consultancies included working for UN agencies, USAID, the World Bank Group, and various implementing agencies. In addition to consulting, he has experience in academia, having served in academic positions in universities in the USA, the UK, the Middle East, and Africa.

Dr. Matowe serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Lusaka Apex Medical University, a preeminent private university in Zambia. He currently serve on various international boards including chairing the People that Deliver Initiative, an organization that advocates at the highest level for interventions to improve the demand and supply of a qualified health supply chain professionals in organizations. He also serve on various international committees including serving on the Global Health Supply Chain Summit committee.

Joseph Ndagijimana leads the Rwanda team at Zipline, a technological and logistics company that delivers medical products to hospitals in remote areas using autonomous drones. He holds a master’s degree in global health delivery from the University of Global Health Equity and a degree in pharmacy from National University of Rwanda. Prior to Zipline, he received the prestigious Global Health Corps fellowship and worked on implementing international procurement processes for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment to hospitals in rural districts of Rwanda. Ndagijimana has extensive experience in medical supply chains in both government, private, and nonprofit institutions, including the Medical Procurement and Production Division of the Rwanda Biomedical Center, and the non-profit, Partners In Health.

Dr. Peter Okebukola is the leader of McKinsey & Company’s Healthcare Practice in West Africa as well as a global expert in healthcare supply chains. Dr. Okebukola’s breadth of experience is far reaching, having worked as an advisor to governments of nations and CEOs of some of the largest global corporations in several African countries, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Peter currently leads McKinsey’s global supply chain management efforts in Africa and has developed as suite of supply chain management tools which have been used by many clients including large global pharmaceuticals and numerous African countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia, etc. These tools include the SC360 - a proprietary supply chain diagnostic toolkit, a comprehensive digital Logistics Information Management System as well as a Supply Chain Capability Management Leaders Development Program Platform which offers customized modules on core logistics topics including inventory management, forecasting, just-in-time resourcing, supplier management, etc.

Peter has worked extensively with international donor organizations including USAID, DFID, Global Fund, Gates Foundation, UNFPA and UNICEF, in integrating vertical supply chains and implementing country-level healthcare transformation efforts in many developing countries. Further to that, he led a team of global logisticians, donors and their local implementing partners in developing an end-to-end cold chain strategy and architecture for the vaccines supply chain system for some GAVI-supported countries.

Dr. Okebukola holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics, Policy and Finance from Johns Hopkins University, for which he was conferred the National Delta Omega Honors Award. He also holds an M.P.H./ M.B.A from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University as well as a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Lagos. He is proficient in English and French.

Malyse Uwase is the Regional Health & Impact Manager at Kasha. She leads Kasha's health and impact strategy overseeing its implementation and execution across Rwanda and Kenya. Prior to joining Kasha, she worked for various non-profits that focus on gender empowerment and women’s health and has extensive experience working with women and young people in low-income communities focusing on health issues and economic empowerment.