Dr. Gladness Ladislaus Salema is a senior lecture at the University of Dar es Salaam, with 17 years of work experience in teaching, research and consultancy. She is a public health logistician with a PhD in Logistics and Master in Public health. She has been teaching in the areas of operations management, managerial economics and supply chain management. She has also conducted several research in health supply chain. Moreover, Gladness has consulted with both the public sector, private sector, research institutions such as Research for Poverty Alleviation (REPOA); as well as international organisations such as UNDP, UNFPA. She was the member of the 2017 holistic review of the health supply chain of Tanzania, which has led to the redesign of the health commodities supply chain.

Gladness has also coordinated training and analytical assessment in the areas of quantification and supply planning; strategic sourcing; measuring the performance of supply chain; Logistics analysis and strategies development; managing contracts in the supply chains; managing business processes; performance reviews of organization, Efficiency and productivity analysis; Economics of organizations; governance of Inter-organizational relationships; Transaction cost analysis, project formulation, monitoring and evaluation; system mapping and analysis; strategic planning; business planning and modeling using valorization; strengthening innovation ecosystems; problem-based learning methods; policy analysis; and cost analysis.

She also has strong knowledge of methodologies and analytical techniques and frameworks such as value chain analysis; SWOT, PESTLE analysis, Budget analysis, procurement portfolio and spend analysis; performance and expenditure review, system analysis and systematic/rapid review techniques and policy research.

Gladness has extensive experience with quantitative research using several types of analytical tools and software such as, SPSS, SMART PLS, Excel Solver, Structural equation modelling (AMOS), DEAP.

Dr. Salema has also been sitting in higher administrative positions as a deputy director as well as project coordinator

Level of Education and where attained: Bsc. Food Science and Technology (Sokoine Univeristy of Agriculture); MBA (UDSM); MPH (UDSM); Postgraduate Diploma in Global health procurement and supply chain management (Empower School of Health & Kent University); PhD (Molde, Norway)

Specialised areas of teaching: Logistics and Supply chain management

Research interests: Logistics Management; health supply chain management

Recent projects: • Health care supply chain sustainability and operations management: Systematic review methodological trends and practices (2022)

•        Determinants of supply chain resilience and its effects on vaccines availability (2022)

•        Lean thinking in medicines supply chains: applicability and success factors (2021)

•        Determinants of warehouse technical efficiency: the case of Medical Stores Department (MSD) in Tanzania (2022)

•        Exploratory analysis of hospital technical efficiency Aim: To assess the overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency in both public and private hospitals (2021)

•        Antecedents of Supplier logistics performance:  An Empirical Study of the Essential       Medicines Supply in Tanzania (2015)

Recent publications: Salema, G & Simwita, Y (2022). Health care supply chain sustainability and operations management: Systematic review methodological trends and practices. Paper presented in the 4th  African Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Kessy,S., Salema, G., & Simwita, Y. (2021). Lean thinking in medical commodities supply chain: waste and drivers. Research report (submitted for publication)

Salema, Gladness (2019). The effect of output monitoring on supplier logistics performance and flexibility: the mediating effects of buyer-supplier integration in the context of essential medicines supply. Business Management Review, volume 22, no.2. University of Dar es Salaam

Salema, G. and Buvik, A. (2018) ‘Buyer-supplier integration and logistics performance in healthcare facilities in Tanzania: the moderating effect of centralized decision control’, Int. J. Procurement Management, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.250–265

Salema, G.(2017). The mediation effects of buyer-supplier integration on the relationship between supplier-specific investments and supplier-opportunism. Business Management Re-view, volume 20, no.1, pp. 90-99. University of Dar es Salaam

Salema, G. and Buvik, A. (2016) ‘The impact of buyer-supplier integration on supplier logistics performance in the hospital sector in Tanzania: the moderation effect of buyers’ cross function-al integration’, Int. J. Procurement Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.166–184.

Salema, G. and Kessy, S. (2014). The role of public procurement framework in stimulating SMEs’ innovativeness in Tanzania. Operations research for eastern Africa (Orsea) journal. Volume 4 issue No.