Digitalizing Health Care Supply Chains in Africa

Temidayo Akenroye is an Associate Professor of supply chain and analytics, at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. He obtained his PhD in Supply Chain Management from the University of Salford, UK. His recent research interests focus on using supply chain management to address sustainable development challenges such as healthcare, food security, small businesses, and driving sustainability in global consumption and production systems. He has published widely in many leading academic and practitioner journals. He is a member of the Peer Review College of the British Academy of Management and the Research Advisory Board for the Africa Resource Centre (ARC). Marcia Mkansi is the College Head of Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation, and Commercialization, a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and the former Head of Department of Operations Management at the College of Economic & Management Sciences, University of South Africa. She serves as non-executive director for Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, an advisory board member of Africa Resource Centre (ARC), a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)- funded non-governmental organization, set up to be a resource to the public health sector in African governments.    Godfrey Mugurusi is an Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and study program director for the bachelor of Logistics Management in the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway. He holds a Ph.D. from NTNU in Norway, an MBA from MSM/Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a BSc from Kyambogo University in Uganda. He sits on advisory boards for the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain-Africa (CARISCA) project between KNUST Ghana and Arizona State University, the African Institute for Supply Chain Research in South Africa and the Smart Havens Africa, Uganda. Haitao Li, is a Professor, Department Chair, and Founding Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Supply Chain Analytics, University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His research centers on developing models and algorithms that combine the complementary strengths of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics/optimization for applications in manufacturing, service, agriculture, construction, and healthcare. Dr. Li's research projects have been funded by the U.S. Army Research Office, U.S. DOT, Association Supply Chain Management (ASCM), International Agricultural Trade and Research Consortium (IATRC), Missouri Agriculture and Small Business Development Authority (MASBDA), and HP Labs, Ameren and the ESI private sector.

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