Global
Health
Provider &
Distribution Networks
Our Experience

BroadReach is committed to producing tangible and meaningful results for our clients. In order for us to consistently deliver on this promise, BroadReach has assembled a world-class team of multi-disciplinary experts who provide the knowledge, experience, and expertise to enable our clients and partners to quickly realize their objectives.

BroadReach’s Chairman, Dr. Ernest Darkoh, is widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on large scale healthcare delivery and HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment in the developing world. Dr. Darkoh – through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck - was responsible for leading and managing the National ARV Program for the Government of Botswana - a program that has received worldwide acclaim for its groundbreaking, innovative programs making HIV/AIDS treatment widely available to all its citizens. For his efforts in Botswana and beyond, Dr. Darkoh was named by TIME Magazine to its list of 18 "Global Health Heroes", and was recently profiled in the prestigious medical journal, The LANCET.

Our team's background and experience reach across all sectors of the healthcare industry and international development sectors, including those with backgrounds in hospital management, health insurance, disease management, public health management, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and management consulting. Members of our team are recognized as leading experts and are frequently called on to provide expert advice and consultation within such organizations as the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum (Davos), the Clinton Global Initiative, the Aspen Institute, and the World Health Organization.

BroadReach's work spans the globe - from Ethiopia, to China, to India, to the Caribbean. We're experienced in delivering on all levels of client needs - from short term strategy engagements to managing multi-year, multi-million dollar programs for governments, donors, companies, and assistance agencies. Our focus covers a broad range of global health topics - health systems strengthening, HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria, human resource capacity building, maternal and child health, market strategies for new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, health financing and insurance, and an emerging focus on new global health challenges such as Avian Flu.


Program Spotlight:

Delivering HIV/AIDS Treatment in South Africa through Large Scale Public/Private Networks

BroadReach is the prime contractor leading an innovative, $20M+ US PEPFAR funded antiretroviral treatment program in South Africa - a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS burden of nearly 6,000,000 people infected. This program, conceived and launched by BroadReach in 2004, seeks to enroll as many patients onto life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment as possible by overcoming the critical human resource capacity shortages so prevalent across the developing world. To realize this goal, BroadReach is…

  • Organizing South Africa's largely untapped private and NGO healthcare providers into a well-managed and organized delivery network
  • Building capacity in local government healthcare institutions by improving their operations and clinical skills.

Key highlights of this program include:

  • Providing care to patients in underserved and rural areas who otherwise would not have access to life-saving treatment
  • Partnering with government hospitals and clinics to improve efficiency and quality of care so that more patients can be treated
  • Tapping into the capacity of South Africa's private and NGO healthcare providers by creating a network of doctors, laboratories, and drug distributors to complement the work of the South African government program to diagnose and treat uninsured, "public sector" HIV/AIDS patients.
  • Working through networks of community-based support organizations such as local churches and small businesses to help mobilize, educate and provide ongoing support to people living with HIVAIDS
  • Financing the care and treatment of patients through a "social health insurance" fund
  • Ensuring quality of care through an innovative disease management system which centralizes operational and clinical data collected in the program, applies algorithms to the data to flag potential quality outliers, and remotely supports the care and treatment decisions of field based health workers through nurse and physician manned call centers. Additionally, Harvard Medical School has partnered with BroadReach to help oversee program quality and to train healthcare providers.

For more information on our South Africa treatment program, see this article released by the US State Department in Dec 2005.


Sample Areas of Technical Expertise

Scaling-Up Healthcare Programs - we help healthcare programs move from "pilot" stage to mass scaled systems.

Human Resource Capacity Building - we implement creative models for overcoming human resource capacity shortages, such as rapidly training and supporting new cadres of field based health workers.

Ensuring Quality in Global Health Programs - we have expertise in rapidly deploying practical, data driven systems for measuring program effectiveness and quality of care down to a patient level, and then utilizing the data to directly influence care decisions.

Emerging Market Entry - we have expertise in helping technology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies develop strategies for marketing and distribution of healthcare related products in emerging markets and the developing world.

Management Training - we provide program management training to developing world managers who are responsible for implementing and managing healthcare programs.

Engaging Private Healthcare Providers - we help governments and donors develop and implement strategies for harnessing private healthcare providers, and deploying financing and quality assurance systems for ensuring high quality delivery of private sector services.

Program Management - we manage large, complex healthcare programs for develop assistance agencies and donors.

Community Mobilization - we develop community-led programs, often leveraging community-based organizations such as local churches, houses of worship, and small business as distribution points for healthcare services.

Remote Clinical Decision Support - we deploy innovative systems - telemedicine, centralized data management and analysis, quality assurance, and performance improvement - to support the clinical care decisions of health workers in the field; ensuring quality and consistency of clinical decision making.

Last Mile Distribution -we can help solve supply chain distribution challenges in emerging markets and the developing world, helping ensure proper utilization of products through provider training, clinic-level demand management, local distribution network design, and the ability to monitor and evaluate utilization patterns.


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