Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

On Wednesday, 13th of November, Prof. Dr. Marianne Jahre will hold her inaugural. The lecture is open to the public. After the lecture there will be a buffet and drinks. 

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• Reception after lecture
• Venue: KLU Forum / Foyer

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Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

The COVID-19 pandemic led to initial medicine supply shocks worldwide, exposing the vulnerability of medicine supply chains at full scale. Medicine shortages were already an increasing global problem in normal times before the pandemic, particularly for off-patent (generic) medicines. Medicine supply networks are complex and vulnerable. Few buffers, outsourcing to low-cost countries, and focus on low prices have led to many medicines with very few suppliers. This in addition to lack of transparency and sharing of information means that fixing the causes of shortage problems is easier said than done. 

My lecture will discuss these issues based on an interdisciplinary international research project – MIA: Measures for Improved Availability of medicines and vaccines. MIA takes a system-wide approach with the purpose of providing policymakers with evidence-based decision-support, data, and tools. The title of my lecture is taken from the first paper we published, which demonstrates the state of knowledge in practice and research before the pandemic.
 

Marianne Jahre is professor and the Dean of Research at KLU. After finishing her Phd. in reverse logistics at Chalmers University of Technology in 1995, she worked at BI Norwegian Business School as professor in operations and supply chain management. She also has a professorship at Lund University and has been a visiting scholar at MIT and INSEAD. 

Her research rests on an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approach, particularly focusing on design of supply networks and logistics systems within different contexts including household waste management, electronics recycling, packaging, disaster relief and health. Since 2007, her research and teaching have focused on humanitarian logistics and supply chain risk management, heading projects and supervising students undertaken in cooperation with IFRC, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNICEF and Norwegian NGOs. She now heads research projects on drug shortage in partnerships with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and universities in France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Ethiopia and cooperates with the International Institute of Business in Kyiv on developing business cases of how Ukrainian companies handle the war.