Research Seminar by Prof. Marianne Jahre & Joe Viana

Posted on February 26, 2021 by administrator

A Research Seminar by Prof. Marianne Jahre & Joe Viana was organized on 25 February 2021.

Topic – Short of Drugs? Contributions from Operations and Supply Chain Management Research

Abstract of the talk:

MIA (Measures for Improved Availability of medicines and vaccines) addresses the fact that
previous research has tended to look at pharmaceutical supply chains from the manufacturers’
perspective. Funded by the Research Council of Norway and BI will, together with partners from
the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), INSEAD, Lancaster University, Rotterdam
School of Management, take a system-wide approach to understand medicine and vaccine
distribution. Aiming to design supply chains that function both under normal conditions and in
crises, MIA includes patients’ and governments’ perspectives, a better understanding of
competition and the impact of digitalization. By building comprehensive models of the networks,
different supply chain risk mitigation strategies, i.e. interventions, will be compared to see what
works best under different circumstances. MIA planned to simulate an epidemic but was
overtaken by coronavirus. The COVID-19 Supply Chain Task Force was set up together with
NIPH, Jimma University, Institute of Health and St. Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College,
both in Ethiopia. Here we study what we can learn from the response to and effect of COVID-19
on causes to and interventions for solving shortage problems and include low-income and high-
income countries. We will present the project and some of our initial results.