SCAN Podcast.: Recent Episodes
Supply Chain Africa News
Supply Chain Africa News (SCAN) provides news, views, and interviews from the supply chain sector in Africa. SCAN aims to provide news in the areas of technology, warehousing, transport, freight forwarding, materials handling, procurement, logistics, trade, regulation, women in supply chain, global health, webinars, entrepreneurs, and management that is relevant to the supply chain sector.
Rosemary Okello Orlale is a communication specialist and expert on media, gender and development issues. For more than 18 years, she has been focusing on development journalism and been exploring the intersection between media, gender and development journalism. She is currently focused on harnessing Data Revolution and reshaping the Africa Narrative through creative communication and social justice storytelling.
#6 How he left his good job at The Global Fund to save Pharmaceutical Supply Chain In Africa.
Dr Lloyd Matowe left his job at the Global Fund when he realised that his services were needed in his continent. He founded Pharmaceutical Systems Africa (PSA) whose mission is to work with developing countries to build sustainable capacity in pharmaceutical supply system management. His main message from the interview was "build capacity in Africa so that Africans can solve their own problems"
#5 "It's good to dream for dreams can be valid"
Eva's story is that of resilience, hard work and most importantly showing up and showing out. The calm natured Director gives us insight into her professional work, working with street children and resettling slum communities at Plan International and Undugu Society, her personal work, serving as the first female Executive Director at St John Ambulance and now life in the C-suite at North Star Alliance.
#4 Motomoke talks of how she managed to tackle racism, gender discrimination and make it in Public Health Supply Chain.
In this episode, I chat with Eomba Motomoke, who is currently serving as the Technical Assistant in Supply Chain and Performance Improvement at PNAM. Eomba has had an interesting journey with an educational background to creating with is used by the World Health Programme. A multilinguistic, with a career spanning over 20 years, she details the issues she has had to face including racial profiling, gender discrimination among others. With a technical mastery of public health supply chain management, youth, women/gender issues Eomba is a force to reckon with.
#3 From Solar Engineering to an expert in Health Supply Chain
Modibo means teacher in native Mali . In this episode, Modibo and I spoke about how he rose from engineering to health supply chain, his work on fostering for immunization in Mali and great West Africa. He also spokes on racial profiling that comes with working abroad, the highs and lows of a career in the supply chain, his Motto which is quality in everything and the gender gap that is currently being faced in the supply chain.
In this episode, I sit down with Murtada Sesay who is currently serving as the Managing Director Health Supply Matters. Murtada has over 20 years experience as an expert in health supply chain. He shares on the gender gap in supply chain, capacity building and the need for information management during a crisis.
#1 How mentors and the right skills helped her in joining the C-suit.
In this episode, I sit down with our inaugural Woman in Supply Chain of the week: Azuka Okeke who is the Chief Executive Officer at Africa Resource Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management. We speak about her career journey, how she has managed to raise more than 70k USD and most importantly the role that mentors have played in her career.