EVENT OVERVIEW

Dialogue Forum Ii

SCAN Health is pleased to bring its Community of Practice members together to engage, collaborate and discuss supply chain resilience in Canadian healthcare systems at Dialogue Forum II. This event marks a critical milestone for the Community of Practice. In its first year, the Community of Practice established six workgroups composed of supply chain experts, industry executives, healthcare leaders, clinicians, government officials, and researchers focussed on advancing key features of the healthcare supply chain. Citizens support each workgroup by providing a lens on diversity, equity and inclusion to ensure strategies and solutions are developed with a person-centred approach. Dialogue Forum II will spotlight the priorities of each workgroup, explore synergies and areas of collaboration, and delineate the path forward to achieving a digitally enabled, integrated, sustainable, and safe supply chain for health systems.

Key Objectives

Validate and finalize workgroup priorities for solution co-design in year two;

Define outcomes, impact and value of priority solutions co-designed, such as equity, sustainability of workforce & health system performance; and

Examine synergies across workgroups, define strategy for multi-workgroup engagement.

General Information

Date And Time Platform

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

12:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Contact For Inquiries

info.scanhealth@uwindsor.ca

Contingency Plan

The event will be hosted on Zoom

Testing

Access your Zoom link 15 min. early to ensure it is functioning

If you experience difficulties with your computer's audio, an alternative solution is available whereby you may connect to phone audio. This can be achieved by placing a call to 647-558-0588 (or find your local number here) and entering the Meeting ID: 899 7777 8444 and Passcode: 395634

If there was a reason for us to close the event, we will move to the backup link. You can access that link by clicking here and entering the Meeting ID: 885 4125 2748 and Passcode: 179162

12:00 – 12:20

Welcoming Remarks

Overview of the Community of Practice charter, including its workgroup priorities, anticipated outcomes, strategy and partners.

Presenter:

Dr. Anne Snowdon - Scientific Director & CEO, SCAN Health

Breaking Barriers to Broker Public-Private Sector Partnerships [Panel with Q&A]

12:20 – 1:20

Supply chains have been severely impacted during natural disasters and public health emergencies in recent years, yet evidence of learning from these experiences is limited. A key objective of this panel is to mobilize industry capacity and supply chain expertise to broker public-private sector partnerships in an attempt to gain a mutual understanding of challenges and strengths that already exist in the system. An alliance formation across public and private spheres will reduce silos, target complex problems of the healthcare supply chain, and enable creation and validation of frameworks, tools, and solutions, developed by diverse stakeholders, that are able to support more equitable and ethical supply chain management practices that protect all citizens and the healthcare workforce. This panel will explore the opportunities to improve private and public sector coordination and collaboration to advance supply chain resilience to strengthen quality, safety, and equitable access to critical products.

Panelists:

• Erica Dalia - Vice President, Pharmaceutical Partnerships, Shoppers Drug Mart

• Dimitris Polygenis - President, Pharmaceutical Solutions & Specialty Health, McKesson Canada

• Rick Prinzen - Chief Supply Chain Officer and Vice-President, Donor Relations, Canadian Blood Services

• Dr. Anne Snowdon - Scientific Director & CEO, SCAN Health

1:20 – 1:30 BREAK

The Big Picture: Key Priorities for a Resilient Health Supply Chain [Panel with Q&A]

1:30 – 2:30

The Community of Practice’s workgroup leaders will come together on this panel to discuss their respective workgroup priorities, levers and anticipated outcomes. With diverse perspectives representing the healthcare workforce, procurement teams, Canadian suppliers, policy and leadership, panelists are enabled to fulsomely discuss shared and unique risks, challenges, and opportunities to advance equitable outcomes of supply chain management across Canada. Leveraging lessons learned from the opening panel, an emphasis will be placed on cross-sector collaboration engaging federal, provincial, and territorial levels of government as well as identifying opportunities to engage Indigenous perspectives and vulnerable populations’ voices.

3:40 – 4:00

Panelists:

• Dr. Kathleen MacMillan - Past Director and Professor, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University

• Jayson Myers - CEO, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen)

• Jitendra Prasad - Special Advisor, Alberta Health Services

• Dr. Anne Snowdon - Scientific Director & CEO, SCAN Health

Strategic Dialogue Session: Defining Milestones and Strategy for the Community of Practice [Breakout Session]

Participants will be placed in a smaller breakout group where their area of expertise and perspectives will strengthen the dialogue in defining the scope, strategy and outcomes of the workgroup collaboration. Each group will describe roles and resources required to advance workgroup priorities and co-design of solutions that support supply chain resilience, workforce sustainability, security and economic recovery. With a description of deliverables, participants can begin to sequentially map the milestones and identify anticipated challenges and risk mitigation strategies in achieving goals.

• ROOM 1: Workforce Sustainability + Digital Supply Chain

• ROOM 2: Leadership & Policy + Sourcing & Procurement

• ROOM 3: Supply Chain Security + Domestic Supplier Network

Closing Remarks

A summary of key takeaways from the breakout session will be shared and actionable next steps for the Community of Practice to achieve will be presented before concluding Dialogue Forum II.

Presenter:

Dr. Anne Snowdon - Scientific Director & CEO, SCAN Health