BANZIMANA Stany

Biography

Mr. Stany Banzimana, holds a MSc in Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development and currently doing research on Vaccine Supply Chain Management System Design for Rwanda and Kenya as part of his PhD trajectory. He is a permanent lecturer at the University of Rwanda (UR), College of Business and Economics (CBE) since 2013. From 2014 to date, he works with the East Africa Community Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization and Health Supply Chain Management (EAC RCE-VIHSCM) hosted by the UR on behalf of the EAC Partner States. At the RCE-VIHSCM, he has served in different positions and is currently responsible for designing and delivering professional courses for health supply chain workforce development in the EAC Region and more than 2,000 healthcare professionals across the EAC region have been trained on various topics related to vaccines, immunization and health supply chain management. From 2020 to date, he is supporting the National Immunization Programme (EPI), a division of Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) as a member of the National Immunization Logistics Working Group (NILWG) and his support focuses on new and routine vaccines introduction, storage, distribution, cold chain management, vaccination coverage and system re-design to improve access and uptake of vaccines. Mr. Stany is currently involved in research, training and teaching supply chain management (Procurement, Logistics, transport management and distribution) related topics at both College of Business and Economics (UR-CBE) and the EAC RCE-VIHSCM and is a co-author of eight papers on access to medicines and supply chain management.