BANZIMANA Stany

Academic rank: 
Assistant Lecturer
Department: 
Procurement Management
School: 
School of Business
College: 
College of Business and Economics(CBE)
Phone: 
(+250)788690864
E-mail: 
stanybanz@gmail.com
Educational Background: 
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.
Research Interests and area of expertise : 
Logistics and Supply Chain Management for Health Products and Technologies with a focus on Vaccines Programme
Publications: 

1)Barriers to access of maternal health commodities among pregnant women in public health facilities in Ubungo Municipal Council, Tanzania. 
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20523211.2023.2300457.                            

2)Accessibility of malaria commodities in Geita District Council, mainland Tanzania: the experiences from healthcare providers and clients. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20523211.2024.2308611                                                            

3)Assessing determinants of the availability of HIV tracer commodities in health facilities in Wakiso District, Uganda
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20523211.2024.2306846.                            

4)Assessment of vaccine management performance in health facilities of Mwanza Region, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study. Link to the article: https://joppp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40545-023-00651-z.                              

5)Insights into vaccine hesitancy from systems thinking, Rwanda. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8542260/
6)A Systems-Based Framework for Immunisation System Design: Six Loops, Three Flows, Two Paradigms.  https://doi.org/10.1080/20476965.2021.1992300

7)Cost Analysis of Current Distribution and Redesigned Distribution Systems for Vaccines in Rwanda.  DOI: 10.4314/rjmhs.v4i2.2

8)The Integration of a Flow Model into a Stakeholder-Based Framework for Vaccines Supply Chain Design. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15398-4_14