Pharmaceutical Supply Management

Focus on Low & Middle income countries. Understand and improve the supply of medicines and medical products.

What you'll learn
Understand the pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical and healthcare needs in low and middle income countries
Detailled insight in all steps of the supply cycle (e.g. Specification, Quantification, Procurement, Storage, Use)
How to forecast/quantify medicines and health products
Procurement
Warehousing and distribution logistics
Rational use of medicines
Requirements
Although it will be helpful, you do not need to have a pharmaceutical or medical background to understand and benefit from this course. Whether your field of expertise is in (public) health, nursing, laboratory, logistics, finance or general management, you will see that the topics are presented in such a way that you will easily pick up the concepts and able to apply them in your own daily practice.
Description
Welcome!My name is Ron Wehrens and I'm a pharmacist from the Netherlands with 25 years of hands-on experience in pharmaceutical and medical supply management in developing countries. In case you are interested, you'll find my CV available for download with the first lecture.During more than 180 international consultancy missions to more than 30 countries, I have worked with hundreds of health workers, logisticians, legislators, finance people and politicians from all kinds of cultural backgrounds. I have learned a lot from these people, for example that improvements can often be made with relatively simple and low-cost interventions. But I also observed that a lot of the skills and tricks that work best were never taught in Medical or Pharmacy school.In this course you will learn many of these techniques and it is my sincere aim to inspire you to use them to further improve your program.Often times they are common-sense concepts and tricks which once seen can never be forgotten.I hope you will find this course inspiring and that it will help you improving people’s access to medicines!I recommend that you enable the subtitles (captions) to these video-lectures as this will make it easier to get the message, even with the volume turned down.Let's start!Ron

Overview

Section 1: The Global Pharmaceutical Market and Industry

Lecture 1 Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lecture 2 The Global Pharmaceutical Market Size

Lecture 3 The Main Pharmaceutical Companies

Lecture 4 Pharmaceutical Research & Development

Lecture 5 The Medicine Life Cycle

Lecture 6 Blockbuster Medicines and Generic Competition

Lecture 7 Summary Pharmaceutical Market

Section 2: Market characteristics in Low and Middle Income Countries

Lecture 8 Demographics

Lecture 9 Morbidity and Mortality

Lecture 10 Commonly needed Medicines

Lecture 11 Obstacles to Access

Section 3: The Pharmaceutical Supply Cycle

Lecture 12 The Pharmaceutical Supply Cycle

Section 4: Selection & Specification

Lecture 13 Selection and Specification, Essential Medicines

Lecture 14 Fixed Dose Combination tablets (FDCs)

Lecture 15 Product Specification

Section 5: Forecasting & Quantification

Lecture 16 Introduction to Forecasting and Quantification

Lecture 17 Consumption based Method

Lecture 18 Morbidity based Method

Lecture 19 Main Quantification Parameters

Section 6: Finance & Procurement

Lecture 20 Introduction Finance & Procurement

Lecture 21 Manufacturers versus Wholesalers

Lecture 22 Price References

Lecture 23 International Freight

Lecture 24 Centralized versus Devolved Procurement

Lecture 25 Purchasing Methods

Lecture 26 Pareto and ABC analysis

Lecture 27 Corruption

Section 7: Storage & Distribution

Lecture 28 Introduction to Storage & Distribution

Lecture 29 Central Medical Stores

Lecture 30 In-country Distribution

Lecture 31 Inventory Control

Lecture 32 Scheduled Delivery

Lecture 33 Cold Chain

Lecture 34 Kits

Section 8: Use

Lecture 35 Introduction to Use

Lecture 36 Rational and Irrational Use

Lecture 37 Dispensing

Lecture 38 Pharmacovigilance

Lecture 39 Expiry, Shelf-life, Disposal

Section 9: Quiz time and additional bonus downloads!

Lecture 40 Additional bonus downloads

Anyone interested in improving access to medicines and health products in low and middle income countries