Starting in 2017, Chemonics, supported by the USAID Global Health Supply Chain- Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund, has collected temperature and humidity data from sensors in international shipments, in-country trucks, among other supply chain locations (warehouses, hospitals, etc.) for ambient pharmaceutical commodities. In 2021, Chemonics partnered with Engineering for Change to standardize, extract, and analyze the collected data.
Although an enormous quantity of products moves through global health supply chains on a daily basis, the storage and transportation environment for ambient health products — from international transport...