This book focuses on the most recent advancements in the application of digital and innovative technologies for strengthening health supply chains in Africa. While substantial evidence shows how these digital technologies have helped increase health supply chain visibility, efficiency and performance in developed countries, little is known about the challenges and success to apply, adopt and implement in the African context. Therefore, this book brings together contributions from scholars and professionals to form a compendium of practices, challenges, success/failure factors, impact, and socio-cultural peculiarities associated with the adoption and implementation of new digital technologies in transforming health supply chains in various African countries. It helps readers gain insight into the role of technologies and innovations in health supply chain management, as well as for understanding successful and unsuccessful implementation cases in African countries, and how similar scenarios can be replicated or avoided.

The book offers a comprehensive guide for educators, researchers, management professionals, non-governmental organizations, and policymakers on how to effectively drive supply chain digital transformation in Africa’s healthcare system.

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.