The professional story
From district supply chain to national policy
My career in supply chain began not in an analytics department but on the ground —
managing procurement for fourteen public health facilities across the Eastern Cape,
where a data error was never just a wrong number in a spreadsheet. It meant a clinic
running out of medicines. That ground-level accountability for what supply chain data
represents in practice has shaped every analytical decision I have made since.
A decade in district supply chain management — culminating in oversight of a
R900 million annual procurement budget
for vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment across the Amathole District —
gave me an unusually deep understanding of the gap between what health systems
report and what they actually procure and deliver. That gap is almost always a
supply chain analytics and decision-making failure before it is a logistics problem.
Moving into national programme work through the Global Fund and then CHAI gave me
the analytical platform to act on that understanding at scale. At CHAI, embedded
within a Gates Foundation-funded programme,
I led the analytics and diagnostics supply chain function for South Africa's national
syphilis elimination programme — driving
ANC syphilis screening coverage from 64% to 95%
across 7 of 9 provinces, conducting a procurement gap analysis that quantified a
2,025,293 unit annual RDT shortfall under the
RT41 Transversal Contract, and building Power BI dashboards adopted by NDoH, WHO,
and SANAC as primary national policy review tools. Earlier in the engagement, I led
a condom supply chain baseline assessment across
16 Primary Distribution Sites and 18 clinics
spanning all 8 districts of the Eastern Cape, producing reform recommendations
directly adopted into provincial supply chain redesign.
In 2025, that body of work was presented at the
International AIDS Society Conference in Kigali
— a peer-reviewed international stage where the methodology, the data, and the
conclusions held up to global scientific scrutiny.
Through HealthChain Analytics & Advisory,
I now offer senior TA consulting and fractional analytics leadership to global health
implementers, donor agencies, and private sector health organisations — available
for fixed-term contracts and select advisory engagements across South Africa
and sub-Saharan Africa.
