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Theme of the PtD Global Indaba 2024
The supply chain workforce: Solutions to transform health supply chains
People that Deliver is pleased to invite the submission of abstracts for the PtD Global Indaba in Bangkok, Thailand, to be held between 6-8 March, 2024.
The closing date for submissions is 31 October 2023.
We are looking for abstracts that fit in to one of two categories:
Evidence-based solutions with actual results
This is for abstracts that highlight programmatic results. We’d like to know about these results and ask, what’s next?
Future-focused solutions to transform health supply chains
Perhaps you’d like to draw attention to a new approach that hasn’t yet had the chance to yield results. We’d like to know why this is a solution that will transform supply chains and the potential results.
Whichever category your abstract fits into, it should fulfil the following criteria:
- It must align with the theme of the Global Indaba; it should focus on the supply chain workforce and offer a solution to transform health supply chains. Tell us what your solution is.
- The highlighted approach should be sustainable (eg. a programme that could yield results for years to come) and transferable to other geographical settings. Tell us what makes your solution sustainable.
- The focus of the abstract should fall within one or more of the four pathways of PtD’s Theory of change:
- Staffing
- Skills
- Motivation
- Working conditions
The PtD coalition particularly encourages the submission of abstracts that focus on health supply chain management in the following areas:
- Professionalisation
- Leadership and change management
- Motivation
- HR for emergency preparedness
- Working conditions
- Public-private collaborations
- Youth engagement
- Digitalisation
- Gender
- Disability
- Last mile
Presentations may be written and delivered in English or French. Abstract submitters will be contacted within a month following the deadline. All accepted abstracts will be published on the PtD website and possibly in a special issue journal of the conference proceedings.
Please direct any questions to info@upavon.co.za.
To submit an abstract complete the following form.


For me, PtD Indaba is a life-changing moment. The participants are highly resourceful and ready to share knowledge and support others.
– Ukama Okafor, PhD, Pharmacist and Director, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria