Speakers

JC Azé is Chief Operation Support and Logistics (OSL) in the Emergency Response department  (EMO) at WHO. As Logistics team lead between 2007 and 2016 in the Outbreak Response, he was involved in major Outbreaks and Pandemic Responses.  He and his team actively participate to the current reform process developing the WHO Emergency Program across the organization by designing and implementing the OSL across the 3 levels of the organization. Before his 11 years experience in the WHO he worked with MSF during 15 years successively as Logistics officer, country coordinator, finance controller and desk officer in the Department of Operations.

Paula Fernandes has spent much of her career identifying, evaluating and increasing access to high-quality, well-established and novel diagnostics. A biomedical scientist with over 20 years of clinical, research and public health experience, Dr. Fernandes works on medical diagnostic and quality assurance challenges specific to resource-limited, conflict and post-conflict settings. She has led the establishment of laboratory quality improvement networks in West Africa and Southeast Asia and from November 2014 - January 2015 she was part of the Ebola emergency response team in Sierra Leone. Dr. Fernandes also has a special interest in health supply chain systems. With a PhD in Genetics from Cambridge University and an MBA in international business, she leads scientific direction and ensures streamlined business practices to maximize efficiency at GSSHealth. 

Ms. Vidhya R Ganesh, was appointed as Deputy Director of Programme Division for UNICEF Headquarters New York in January 2016.  Vidhya has joined from the UNICEF Botswana Office where she served as Representative from 2014-2016, prior to which she served as the Deputy Representative in Afghanistan from November 2011 to July 2014 and Sierra Leone from March 2009 to November 2011. A national of India, Vidhya is a public health specialist with many years of experience in infectious diseases public health programme, especially HIV/AIDS, polio & immunization, reproductive health and health systems strengthening.  She has over fifteen years of experience that include work in the areas of Senior Management, UN AIDS, World Health Organization, DFiD and NGOs at national and regional level.  She brings with her strong planning and results based management skills, county programme experience and effective team management. Vidhya holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Pace University, New York City, USA and a Master Degree in Public Health (Tropical Medicine/Epidemiology) from Columbia University, New York, USA.

Mr. Kamabare Moses is currently the General Manager and CEO of National Medical Stores (NMS). NMS is a public enterprise whose mandate is to Procure, Warehouse and Distribute Medicines and Medical supplies to all Public Health Facilities in Uganda. For 10 years as CEO, he has led and directed teams that were able to consolidate and integrate the various supply chains into one effective Public Supply chain as part of business re-engineering. NMS also provides logistics for  the Military and Police Medical emergency operations and to other partners as The Global Fund, WHO, UNICEF and USAID for ARVs, Vaccines and commodities for ICCM that are delivered to more than 2900 individual health facilities through the 'last mile'. In 2016, UGANDA/NMS was awarded by UNICEF for exceptional achievement in Effective Vaccine Management (EVM) criteria scores and  Infrastructural Capacity and Quality, at National level.Before joining NMS, he worked with Uganda Police Force for 13 years, providing technical expertise in Forensic and Narcotics Investigations.He is a Pharmacist by training and holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with Advanced International training in Strategic Studies, Forensic and Narcotic investigations. 

Trained as a business and finance expert, Mr. Kaupa has over twenty years of progressive professional experience in the development and implementation of institutional strategies and policies.Over the years, Mr. Kaupa has developed a successful career in strategic business and financial management, institutional re-engineering, and sustainable leadership development in both the private and public sectors. Currently he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST). CMST is a public Trust of the Government of Malawi responsible for procurement, warehousing; and sales and distribution of medicines and medical supplies. He has previously worked in various capacities for the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi Ltd (ESCOM), MANICA (Mw) Ltd and the Natural Resources College. Feston holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM) and also a member of the Malawi Institute of Procurement and Supply (MIPS). Mr. Kaupa is currently reading for a PhD in Supply Chain Management with the University of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa.

Ken Legins is currently Chief, Supply Chain Strengthening Center, UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen.  Before joining Supply Division in December of 2016, Ken was the Senior Advisor, Global HIV Policy and Evidence, UNICEF New York; and the Chief of HIV and AIDS in UNICEF Beijing. He also worked with the World Health Organization Office for Eastern and Central Europe as a woman’s and adolescent health expert.  Ken has led a number of efforts to integrate supply and health programming at country level, exemplified by such initiatives as supporting the first national supply chain assessment for HIV-related drugs and diagnostics in China; facilitating the procurement of low-cost ARVs for non-government controlled areas of Ukraine, and strengthening the ‘last mile’ supply chain for integrated community case management (iCCM) of child hood illnesses in collaboration with the Global Fund in Africa.  Ken received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in ’92 in Biology and Sociology, and Masters in Public Health from Yale University School of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in ’95.  

Ingvild has close to 10 years’ experience working with innovation and entrepreneurship, specializing in innovative public private partnerships for social impact and fostering sustainable business models. She joined NOREPS in 2015 from the startup division in Innovation Norway, having developed and scaled Global Entrepreneurship initiatives for the organisation in Asia, US and nationally. In her current position in NOREPS, she focuses on building structures and partnerships to meet the new mandate from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on humanitarian innovation.