Welcome to Health Supply Chain Management!

This self-directed course will provide orientation and capacity building of staff to ensure IRC country programs and their partners meet global standards more consistently in health supply chain procedures and practices - from sourcing to distribution and use of health products. 

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Is this course for me?
This course is for all IRC staff (country program, region, global) and their partners working with pharmaceuticals and medical commodities, whether as part of health/program teams, or operations teams including supply chain, grants and finance.  

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How will I benefit from this course?
On completion of this course you will:

    • Gain knowledge on principles and concepts on 5 key health supply chain topics 
        1. Health Supply Chain Cycle
        2. Quantification
        3. Cold Chain Management
        4. Good Distribution Practices 
        5. Logistics Management Information Systems
    • Identify best practices to continuously improve all aspects of health supply chain, for the longer term.
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How long will it take?
 This course should take you around four and a half (4.5) hours to complete.

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How much does it cost?
 This course is free!

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Will I get a certificate at the end?
 Yes - you will be able to download a certificate once you have have completed all of the modules within the course.

The word START and a question mark in a circleHow do I start?
 Scroll to the top of the page and click on the      I agree - Join course!       button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.


Data protection and consent
This course was created and is administered by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). By joining this course you are consenting to the IRC being given access to your Kaya profile information, including your name and email address, so that they can provide the course. This may require them to contact you. Your data will be anonymised before it is used for any analysis or reporting purposes. If you have any questions about this, please email learning@rescue.org