Public Health Supply Chains Need Redesign: Bigger Band-Aids Will Not Work

E1621 - Public Health Supply Chains Need Redesign: Bigger Band-Aids Will Not Work

Published: August 12, 2026

Duration: 59:16

A missed delivery in a public health supply chain is never just a logistics problem. It can mean a child misses a vaccine, a patient goes without treatment, or an entire community loses trust in its healthcare system.

In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott W. Luton welcomes Don Hicks, CEO of Optilogic, and Taylor Wilkerson, Executive Director of Design for Life, for a powerful conversation about using supply chain design to help more people access essential medicines. Don and Taylor explain why many public health supply chains face the same complexity as the world’s la...