During a public health emergency like we are experiencing today, our nation requires much stronger public-private partnership to mitigate and prevent supply chain disruptions. This includes greater collaboration between the federal government and group purchasing organizations, distributors, manufacturers, and clinicians to identify essential products that must be stockpiled and to create supply chain expertise for management of the SNS. Longer-term, more deliberate public-private coordination is necessary to develop innovative strategies to gather data, forecast demand, preserve inventory, increase supply availability, and allocate supplies to providers based on clinical need.
