1、Building Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains 1 Building Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains Building Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains 2 About this paper and the initiative The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the complexity of managing global and regional supply chains in the face of volatility.As such

2、,many governments today are considering how to better secure critical healthcare supplies in times of crisis.What is now needed is a clear set of recommendations that reflect an understanding of how global healthcare supply chains are designed,and the extent to which they can be reorganised after co

3、nsidering the trade-offs for both firms and patients.The pandemic demonstrated how well-intentioned regulatory interventions can constrain healthcare firms in emergency response,and highlighted that flexibility and agility were key to the successful global administration of more than 13 billion dose

4、s of an entirely new vaccine by the end of 2021.1 This paper sets out to assist governments in the Asia Pacific region by offering key recommendations for achieving better health outcomes during crises.It builds on two years of work on healthcare supply chains,including The State of Healthcare Suppl

5、y Chains in APEC and a Supply Chain Resilience Toolkit.The National Center for APEC(NCAPEC),Johnson&Johnson,UPS,and Access Partnership jointly developed these reports and the toolkit.The authors would also like to thank Dr.Deborah K.Elms,who contributed to drafting this paper,and representatives fro

6、m across the healthcare supply chain in Asia Pacific,who have provided insightful perspectives on this issue.2 1 Our World in Data(2021,“Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccinations.”Available at:https:/ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations?time=2021-12-30.latest&country=OWID_WRL 2 Roundtable