Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector

Acknowledgements
The Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office for the
Americas of the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) would
like to express their special gratitude to the chief author of this
handbook, Gerardo Quirós Cuadra, an expert on the subject and a frequent
collaborator of FUNDESUMA. We would also like to thank the outstanding
support provided by FUNDESUMA and the technical contributions
it has made to the handbook.
Other especially significant contributions came from Dr. María Margarita
Restrepo, of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of
Antioquia, Medellín; Gérard Gómez of the Latin American Emergency
Relief Office of Médecins sans Frontières; Dr. Edgardo Acosta Nassar,
Jerónimo Venegas and Víctor Martínez of FUNDESUMA; Glauco
Quesada of the German Red Cross; Alvaro Montero, consultant for
USAID/OFDA and FUNDESUMA; John Price II of the U.S. Defense
Logistics Agency; and Sandra Salazar Vindas. Their suggestions, recommendations,
documentary contributions and conceptual support have
made it possible to offer a more comprehensive approach to the subjects
covered in the book.
The first draft of this work was widely disseminated among logistics and
supply management organizations and experts around the world.
Hundreds of comments were received and taken into account in the final
version of the text. We wish to recognize all those individuals who, in a
personal capacity or in the name of the organizations they work for,
made valuable suggestions and comments that have enriched this effort.
They include Katarina Toll, Isabelle Demuyser-Boucher, Gerhard
Putnam-Cramer, and Hans Zimmerman of the U.N. Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Rod McKinnon, of
Emergency Management Australia; Gregorio Gutiérrez, Project Impact,
the Dominican Republic; Luis Campos Cerda and Luis Felipe Puelma
Calvo, Emergency and Disaster Program of Maule, Chile; G. Kipor, All-
Russian Center for Disaster Medicine; Sonja Nieuwejaar of the U.S.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Alfonso Vaca Perilla
of Colombia’s Civil Defense; Luis Wintergest Toledo of Mexico’s Civil
Protection Agency; Javier Olaya of the Colombian Red Cross; Steven De
Vrient of PAHO/WHO Nicaragua; the Nicaraguan Red Cross; Alessandro
Loretti of WHO; Martin E. Silverstein of the Uniformed Services
University of Sciences; Peter Manfield of Cambridge University; Judith
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