Welcome to the Health Supply Chain Performance and Online Learning Platform!

About the Course 

The course covers various aspects of the health supply chain logistics cycle, including quantification and ordering, storage management, inventory management, reporting, and financial management. The course aims to improve supply chain performance at the facility level. There are seven modules available for you to complete when convenient for you as a learner. Each module will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. You may complete all of the topics included on this platform to obtain a course certificate, earning badges as you complete each module. 

Most participants in this e-learning course will have been referred here after completing the facility self-assessment for supply chain management. It may be that the results of the self-assessment and subsequent action plan recommend the participant take the full course or to take specific modules based on current performance-strengthening needs.

Altogether this is a vast subject. We cannot cover everything. However, each module shall focus on specific aspects of the health supply chain that can improve facilities’ performance. The course will help supply chain personnel design, implement, review, and operate supply chain systems at the facility level. The supply chain personnel include: pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, dispensers, and storekeepers. 

What will I learn?

By the end of this course, you will be able to…

• Describe the purpose of an Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS) management system
• Explain the Medicines Management Cycle 
• Compare the components of the EMHS management system with the Medicines Management Cycle and discuss how they are interlinked
• Ordering
• Facility storage  
• Managing Inventory
• Dispensing and rational medicines use
• Managing finances
• Identify and use the day-to-day facility supply chain tools

Topics covered include:

• Rational Medicine Use: ABC analysis 
• Managing finances: Budget monitoring 
• Bimonthly Ordering: How and when to order health commodities products manually, in DHIS2 and CSSP
• Temperature monitoring of store and cold chain items
• How to navigate and use Rx Solution as an electronic logistics management information system
• Inventory management: Stock cards, stock books, Requisition Issue Vouchers, electronic Logistics Information System (e-LMIS)
• Dispensing practices

This module focuses on Partnership in the implementation and monitoring of Environmental Health services,  availability of safe water, Environmental Health, Sanitation and Hygiene practices, Food and food hygiene, Environmental pollution, Housing and Urbanization, School health, Road safety and safe Energy.

Early Action Review (EAR) using the 7-1-7 framework

Module overview

Purpose:

This virtual (e-learning) continuous professional development (CPD) training module seeks to strengthen the workforce (health workers’) capacities to prevent, detect, respond to, and manage severe acute respiratory infection (and COVID-19) epidemics, particularly using the One Health approach, which recognizes the link between human, animal, and environmental health.

MPOX is a viral infectious disease characterized by a rash that progresses to blisters and then crusts over, accompanied by flu-like symptoms such as fever and swollen lymph nodes.

Originally discovered in 1958, Mpox has transformed from a relatively obscure disease to a significant global health concern of Pandemic potential. The 2024 outbreak resulted in over 80,000 cases across 114 countries and the global surge in Mpox cases has underscored the need for robust  active surveillance systems for timely detection, rapid response, and effective management of infectious disease outbreaks.

Over 75% of global Mpox cases are in Africa, primarily in Central and West African countries where healthcare infrastructure is often limited. This module will focus on MPOX disease.

Module overview 

Purpose: 

This module aims to develop the competencies of One Health professionals to apply integrated approaches in the prevention, early detection, and effective response to priority viral hemorrhagic fevers in Uganda, using principles of surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and infection prevention and control across human, animal, and environmental health sectors. As a One Health staff (in-service and pre-service), there is need for you to apply these concepts in your practice, or when need arises. 

Sessions

There are five sessions in this module

M5S1: Key features of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

M5S2: Case management of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

M5S3: Infection, Prevention and Control of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

M5S4: Risk communication and community engagement for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

M5S5: One health approach to coordination, prevention and control of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

Key abbreviations:

Module overview

Purpose:

To strengthen the knowledge and skills of one health staff in identifying outbreaks by applying the concept of thresholds, using available data to inform disease surveillance, investigating outbreaks through multi- and cross-sectoral collaboration and informing comprehensive response through a one health approach.

Module Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module, participants should be able to 

1. Apply the principles of outbreak investigation

2. Develop a case definition of the disease

3. Use epidemiological tools to describe an outbreak and inform control efforts

4. Carry out risk communication for the media, scientific and community audiences

5. Describe the role of the 7-1-7 framework in the detection and response to outbreaks

6. Describe the key incident command structures that function during outbreak response at national and sub national levels

Sessions

There are five sessions in this module

M3S1: Principles of outbreak investigation

M3S2: Case definition development

M3S3: Epidemiological tools in outbreak investigation

M3S4: Risk Communication and community engagement

M3S5: Response coordination mechanisms for one health

Abbreviation

OH: One health