Our programs
Our current programs focus on developing technology, conducting research and offering insights.
SCANIT 2.0
Supply chain analysis & intelligence tool
When countries lack access to supply chain resources and training, or when supply disruptions impact a region, supply chains suffer — and when supply chains suffer, so do people. An underdeveloped supply chain can be inefficient, unintentional and unsustainable, stunting the development of communities and countries.
SCANIT 2.0 will help to solve the problem with analysis that is unbiased and accessible, using readily available data to model supply chain alternatives. The software will support governments and NGOs in low- and middle-income countries to improve supply chain analysis and evolution, including areas such as strengthening product integration, optimizing last mile delivery, outsourcing and more. It will provide data on a variety of commodities, including vaccines, nutrition, non-essential medicines and medical kit/equipment.
Offered free for use in partnership with Optilogic, UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, SCANIT 2.0 is user-friendly and approachable, catering to the proficiency of the user. It will provide visual and engaging insights — including downloadable maps, graphs and tables — to illustrate the impact of redesign options for decision-makers to advocate for change. It will make supply chain questions easy to understand by allowing the user to see the impact of different variables – such as distribution, inventory and transportation – on the supply chain.
HealthCPT
micro-planning health campaign application
Health campaigns are an essential part of public health infrastructure, helping to prevent, control, eliminate and eradicate diseases and connect people to the services they need.
Planning a health campaign is a complex process, and Ministry of Health staff in low- and middle-income countries often don’t have what they need to effectively design campaigns. It is common to use basic spreadsheets or written notes; staff might lack key data or necessary training to inform their strategy; and institutional knowledge can disappear with staff turnover.
Health CPT is a cloud-based web application designed to support health campaign teams — including doctors, nurses, nongovernmental organizations and health ministries in low- and middle-income countries — to make strategic, efficient choices to strengthen their health care efforts. Users can explore options for how to make their campaigns more environmentally sustainable.
This free software — which can operate on mobile devices and Chromebooks, even with low-bandwidth internet — will help maximize the internationality, focus and efficiency of health campaigns around the world. A person or team will be able to input goals, budget and known variables to pre-plan a strategy, using the portal to see how shifts in factors — such as storage, transportation, staffing, and target geography or population — can affect the outcome of a campaign and, ultimately, impact more lives.
Program 3
Diagnostic Network Competency & Tooling
Competitive analysis is standard practice in many industries, but it’s never been done across supply chain analysis databases in the global public space. This program breaks the barrier of statistical analysis across public health information in LMIC to provide further understanding of trade-offs, best-performing designs, and fact-based ideas for strategies that have not been analyzed before. Together with nonprofits and non-governmental agencies, Design For Life will provide insights that can help policy makers.
Supply Chain Almanac and Database
Global supply chain information and analysis is not standardized — a missed opportunity for communities around the world to learn from one another.
The Supply Chain Almanac and Database — two separate but complementary programs within Design for Life’s toolkit — will allow users to compare and analyze how countries design their supply chains, showing them the strategies and inefficiencies of different approaches. The programs will provide users with benchmark data on key supply chain areas and metrics to strengthen their analyses and decision-making processes, while also enabling best practice sharing and supporting continuous improvement efforts.
The Almanac will help correct the lack of uniformity in supply chain data related to health campaigns. Its AI algorithms sort through thousands of pages of multi-formatted supply chain information to visually present trends and comparisons.
The Database will examine quantitative data on the public health sector’s global supply chain. By combining available supply chain data with synthetic data generated through mathematical and AI-powered models, it will fill in gaps and present complete data — allowing insights to be drawn from comparisons and analysis.
The Almanac and Database will be available for free for nonprofits, health ministries and health workers in low- and middle-income countries. It will be available as a paid membership for for-profit companies, helping to fund the continuation and expansion of our programs.
Program 5
Design Thinking Workshops
As a new and improved way of health campaign planning, the education around design-based thinking is limited. Design Thinking workshops will provide immersive learning experiences for the general public on design-thinking in the public domain and how it can drive improvements in public systems that champion life. These workshops will be held in a hybrid format to ensure that all who want to learn and be inspired can attend, no matter where they are.
Program 6
DFLONOMICS
DFLONOMICS is a ‘think tank’ of supply chain researchers conducting analysis that’s never been done before within supply chain and public health databases, that challenges current thinking and trends. In order to support life in LMIC, we need to better understand how supply chains for public systems work, how they perform, and what steps must be taken for them to improve. By using data from current analysis, gathering public data, and understanding current trends and patterns through design thinking, researchers will uncover creative and efficient solutions for current and future public health challenges.
Looking ahead
Our initiatives in progress include developing a sustainability forum and providing educational tools for users of our programs to strengthen their supply chain design and planning skills.
Do you have an idea for a program or initiative that could support health campaign planning in low- and middle-income countries? Get in touch with our team.
