HHSCM Alumni Spotlight

In 2018, five years after taking the HHSCM program, Kafumbe served as an advisor on Commodities and Supply Chain to the USAID Global Health Bureau, one of the largest donor organizations in the world. At that time, he shared that the forecasting and pre-planning strategies learned from HHSCM would help to determine whether lives may be saved when an outbreak hits. “In the humanitarian sector, with low resources, you never have all of the information you need to make a decision, and you must act fast – if you haven’t already built capacity, you can’t deliver,” said Kafumbe. “I’m now able to better visualize the overall system and lay the framework for strategic decisions to be made in conjunction with partners at local ministries of health who may not have a supply chain background.”

In Uganda, Kafumbe reduced response time to disease outbreaks in Uganda to ensure patients quickly get what they need. He visited 60 districts to map out the entire supply chain, from procurement to the last mile delivery, identifying constraints and using the forecasting and quantification tools he learned while attending HHSCM.

As of 2020 Kafumbe reports that he is now the Senior Supply Chain Systems Advisor for USAID in Uganda Kafumbe was also recently apart of the National COVID-19 Response Task Force as the US Government representative in Uganda. His greatest takeaway from the program that he still uses to this day has been Pre-positioning Supply and Distribution planning. In five years, he sees himself as a Director of a Global Humanitarian Program.