Health and Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains: A Career for Women - Paperback

by Katie Agius (Author), Pamela Awuor Steele (Author)

When disasters strike - earthquakes, floods, outbreaks of disease, and war - televisions show images of relief workers delivering emergency food and water supplies, aid agencies establishing shelters, and doctors delivering medicines to patients in need. But how do these supplies get to the people who need them? Health and humanitarian logisticians are the unsung heroines and heroes who take on the formidable task of supplying the resources needed in a humanitarian response. Traditionally, health and humanitarian supply chains have been seen as a male domain but, as this book shows, this is a field in which women have long played a key role. Through the personal stories of female and male health and humanitarian logisticians this book provides an excellent introduction to a career in health and humanitarian supply chains, with a particular focus on women: How does one get a start as a health or humanitarian logistician? What does a day in the life of a logistician involve? What are the challenges women in particular face? Is the situation of women in the field changing? What advice is out there for women seeking a career as a 'loggy'? This book answers all of these questions and more. In addition, it presents in-depth research into gender in health supply chains, with contributions from practising logisticians. Health and Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains A Career for Women provides readers with a wealth of insights into making a career in this important and fascinating field. 50% of the proceeds from sales of this book will go towards supporting the professional development of female logisticians.

Author Biography

Pamela Awuor Steele MBA Pam has over 25 years' experience in the field of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, including strategic and operational supply chain management in support of development and humanitarian programmes. She is currently the director and principal consultant of the supply chain consultancy, Pamela Steele Associates Ltd (PSA), whose clients include UN agencies and other international organisations. Previously she worked for UNICEF in Copenhagen as a Supply Chain Specialist focusing on capacity development, and programme and supply integration; she left in 2011 to start PSA. Katie Agius Katie graduated from Hertford College, University of Oxford, with a BA in Geography (first-class honours) in 2014. She then completed a Master's degree in Global Migration at University College London (UCL), which included undertaking an ambitious dissertation project examining the relationship between research and political decision-making in the UK. In March 2015 Katie started an internship at PSA where she worked on various research projects. She took up a permanent position with the company in December 2015 as Research and Consultancy Officer. Before working for PSA Katie spent three months interning at Cancer Research UK, in their Prevention Policy Department.