1: Healthcare environment

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Identify the components and key functions of a healthcare system.

  • Describe a country’s public health system, including the model of care, financing, organization, management, and access to care.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the healthcare system and the environment in which healthcare managers and providers function.
  • Apply business principles, including systems thinking, to the healthcare environment.
  • Assess challenges affecting health sector performance in relation to supply chain management.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

2: Introduction to healthcare leadership

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This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Articulate a thorough understanding of the main theories of organizational leadership in the context of the public health sector. 

  • Apply leadership theories at country level to evaluate the various approaches available to developing and delivering the strategic leadership role in the public health sector.
  • Apply business principles, including systems thinking, to the healthcare environment.
  • Create a shared vision and successfully manage organizational change.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

3: Part 1 Health commodities Procurement Supply Chain Management

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Explain the value chain analysis framework in health care commodities supply chain management.

  • Describe the procurement and logistics requirements for supplying health commodities.
  • Apply supply chain management concepts to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare commodities distribution.
  • Apply knowledge of the international rules and legislation concerning the process of acquiring goods, works and services for the public sector, with an emphasis on public health commodities.
  • Describe the tender procedures in supply chain management.
  • Evaluate tender procedures, including making an offer, bid of proposal, or expressing interest in response to invitation or request for tender.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

3: Part 2 Health commodities procurement and supply chain management

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of manufacturing, warehousing and operations planning concepts to ensure efficient and effective operations in the health commodities supply chain management system  

  1. Recognise and understand the complementary requirements of a sustainable supply chain management system   

  1. Critically analyse generic procedures (including computerised procedures) for the acquisition/ commissioning of health commodities and services (procurement/supply chain management) including any international statutory requirements and encompassing product specification, tendering, quality control and contract management arrangements 

  1. Evaluate health commodities to ensure that they are not counterfeit, and that they meet national and international quality standards  

  1. Describe the procurement and logistics requirements for supplying health commodities in emergency and disaster situations  



Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

4: Fundamental legal framework (policies, laws and regulations) of healthcare commodities supply chain

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Describe the role of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Framework of Professional Pronouncements (IFPP) in performance auditing.

  • Demonstrate a general understanding of the legal, business and organizational contexts in which healthcare commodities supply chain management is practiced.
  • Explain the range and types of entities in which information on healthcare commodities is compiled, utilized and subjected to audit.
  • Apply International auditing standards applicable to the supreme audit institution (SAI) bearing in mind the country’s procurement laws and legislation to ensure value for money, open and effective competition, ethics, fair dealing, and accountability.
  • Evaluate the provisions of the law as they affect the practice of healthcare commodities supply chain management, including definitions, implications and consequences of fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering and the exploitation of insider knowledge.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

5: Introduction to health economics, budgeting and financing

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Identify the key principles used in health economics, budgeting, and financing of health care.

  • Explain the concept of health economics, including choices made about health and healthcare demand and production. 
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cost shifting and cross subsidization in healthcare.
  • Discuss the different methods of budgeting and financing in the public health sector.
  • Analyze the nature, pattern and quality of health services including recommendations for appropriate, acceptable, and affordable service provision, which is effective, efficient and equitable.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

6: Public/ private health commodites partnerships & donor relationships

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Describe analyze the range and scope of relationships between public and private sectors, including regulatory issues and the private sector provision of public services through (inter alia) privatization, public/private partnerships and external contracting.
  • Critically analyze regulatory issues regarding private sector provision of public services through (inter alia) privatization, public/private partnerships, and external contracting.
  • Explain the types of donor funding and the mechanisms which can be used to integrate donor funding into local PFM systems.
  • Evaluate the effect of donor funding on local public finance management systems.

Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner

7: Understanding the importance of communication with stakeholders

This course addresses the following competence(s):

  • Discuss the basic principles of stakeholder engagement including communicating with internal and external stakeholders.  

  • Demonstrate the ability to discuss conflicting perspectives through a collaborative and constructive communication process and arrive at a mutually beneficial or mutually acceptable solution.       

  • Present information in a way that is factual, credible, respectful, and understandable to decision-makers.  

  • Analyse the role of stakeholder engagement in effecting good governance 



Teaching Method: Online self-study
Module: Briefing
Skill Level: Beginner