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Patrick Warui Githendu

Health Products| Supply Chain Management| Data Science

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About Me

With a background in pharmacy, supply chain management, and data analytics, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic insight to global health initiatives. My career spans international, national, and sub-national levels, where I have led supply chain transformation projects, optimized procurement systems, and strengthened last-mile delivery for life-saving health products. As a Health Products Management Specialist, I focus on enhancing efficiency, resilience, and data-driven accountability across public health programs. My proficiency in data science and advanced analytics enables me to convert complex datasets into actionable insights that drive smarter decisions and measurable impact. I am passionate about leveraging technology, systems thinking, and collaboration to improve access to essential medicines and advance universal health coverage. Let’s connect to explore how I can add value to your organization’s efforts in health systems strengthening, supply chain innovation, and data-driven transformation.

Career Highlights

My key achievements and contributions.

Leading from the business side the design, development and implementation of the Health Products Management Tool, an online budgeting tool for the next Global Fund cycle (GC8).

At The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, I have succeeded in transforming and optimizing supply chains, improving operational efficiency, and managing substantial health product budgets across multiple countries.

Managing Ethiopia and Tanzania portfolio of health products for HIV, Malaria and TB, Covid-19 health products (approximately 400 million USD per year) including laboratory products. The budget also includes health systems strengthening components to ensure an agile and resilient system. Overseeing end-to end procurement and supply chain activities.

In Nigeria, I led a US $40 million transformational multi-stakeholder public-private partnership project to integrate procurement and supply chain management. This resulted in improved policy direction, human resource capacity building, warehousing, distribution, and logistics management, significantly increasing efficiency and effectiveness

In Tanzania, I co-led an organizational redesign project for the Medical Supply Division, which boosted operational efficiency, established a high-performance culture, enhanced financial stewardship, and improved information system reliability, achieving over 90% on-shelf availability of health products

In Ethiopia, working with the Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceutical Supply Service (EPSA) in a transformation project/ Business Process Re-engineering and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for efficiency and effectiveness. On Shelf Availability of key health products is greater than 90% on average.

In Sudan, I managed a health system strengthening grant worth approximately US $4 million to unify multiple supply chains in. This initiative led to cost savings and enhanced structures and functions for procuring and supplying health products

Education

My academic background.

Oct 2023 - Dec 2024

DSTI - School of Engineering

Applied MSc. in Data Analytics

Grade: Summa Cum Laude. Specializing in Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Visualization, and AI.

2018 - 2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

Leading Organizations and Change, Management

Executive program focused on change management and organizational leadership.

Feb 2004 - Mar 2007

Regent Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Specialization in Health/Health Care Administration/Management.

1997 - 2001

University of Nairobi

B. Pharm, Pharmacy

Foundational degree in pharmaceutical sciences.

1995 - 1996

Institute of Management Information Systems

Diploma in Data Processing Management, Computing

Diploma focused on data processing and management.

Licenses & Certifications

My professional credentials.

SuperDataScience Collab Project Completion
SuperDataScience

Issued Sep 2025

Credential ID: 6a633c1f-7201-4e81-8ef9-7f7007532ef5

Data Analysis with Excel Pivot tables
SuperDataScience

Issued Jun 2025

Credential ID: 9b0ef1b8-fba0-4b6f-9e34-44ba7e24c318

Applied Generative AI and Natural Language Processing
Udemy

Issued May 2024

Credential ID: UC-f7c9896f-8f03-4805-a1d5-0009ac3dd497

Machine Learning A-Z: AI, Python & R
Udemy

Issued May 2024

Credential ID: UC-3cbb5153-ba1a-41a5-bd13-ce38cdc5d811

RDF and SPARQL Essentials
Udemy

Issued May 2024

Credential ID: UC-9babf962-112a-431a-8ed9-7877b042a1a6

Supply Chain Design and Planning with Excel and Python
Udemy

Issued May 2024

Credential ID: UC-f2225edb-2c73-465e-a088-bbd5edeea08d

XSLT XPATH and XQuery Fundamentals
Udemy

Issued May 2024

Credential ID: UC-e44a5356-3b71-4636-9748-3b638e9e671c

Neo4j Certified Professional
Neo4j

Issued Apr 2024

Credential ID: 537ff65b-b094-4464-9c72-65ec18ef5d01

ChatGPT for Data Analytics
Luke Barousse

Issued Mar 2024

Credential ID: 8cb0662d

Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution (CLTD)
Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)

Issued Feb 2023 · Expires Feb 2028

Credential ID: 177234

Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR-P)
Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)

Issued Mar 2017

Credential ID: 144225

Senior Professional in Supply Management (SPSM2)
Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)

Issued Nov 2016

Credential ID: SPSM2

PRINCE2 ® (Project Management)
THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY

Issued Jul 2015

Credential ID: PRINCE2

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Microsoft

Issued Sep 2024 · Expired Sep 2025

Credential ID: AA095A431064DD91

Publications

My published work.

Strengthening regulation for medical products in Tanzania: An assessment of regulatory capacity development, 1978–2020
PLOS Global Public Health
Assessment of the Global Fund-supported procurement and supply chain reforms at the Ethiopian Pharmaceuticals Supply Agency: a mixed-methods study
BMJ Open
Avoiding pitfalls: Key insights and lessons learnt from customizing and rolling out a national web-based system in Tanzania
THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Transformation of the Tanzania medical stores department through global fund support: an impact assessment study
BMJ Open

My Skills

Technologies and tools I work with.

Supply Chain Management
Data Analytics & Data Science
Global Health
Pharmacy
Procurement Systems
Systems Thinking
Data Visualization (Power BI)
Project Management (Agile)
Machine Learning & AI
Python (Programming Language)
R (Programming Language)
SQL & NoSQL (MongoDB)
Advanced Excel
Deep Learning
Health Products Management

My Work

A selection of my recent projects.

SDS-CP040-modelops
SDS-CP040-modelops
Learn how to deploy models to production.
SDS-CP038-banktermpredict
SDS-CP038-banktermpredict
A supervised learning project focused on predicting whether a banking client will subscribe to a term deposit.
HealthChain-Insights
HealthChain-Insights
Website of Health Chain Insights Company.
SDS-CP033-spinescope
SDS-CP033-spinescope
A supervised learning project based on biomechanical measurements of orthopedic patients.
SAS-Viya-Project
SAS-Viya-Project
A project utilizing SAS Viya for advanced analytics.
Call-Data-Power-BI-project
Call-Data-Power-BI-project
A project for visualizing call data using Power BI.
Big_data-in-R_AirBnB
Big_data-in-R_AirBnB
Analysis of AirBnB data using Big Data techniques in R.
Datawarehousing_ETL
Datawarehousing_ETL
A project focused on data warehousing and ETL processes.
DSTI_Class-_ML_2024
DSTI_Class-_ML_2024
Class work on machine learning.
Books-ML-Project
Books-ML-Project
A machine learning project related to books.

Get In Touch

I'm currently open to new opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate or just say hi!