May 21, 2021 ‘Unique opportunity to develop affordable supply chain’ A vital lesson from this pandemic is that the capacities of public health systems must be scaled up and repurposed, and systemic approaches used for strengthening resilience across all sectors towards disasters. Else, disruptions to the supply chain systems on which various facilities and undisrupted services depend have fatal consequences, says Sanjay Srivastava, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction at the UN-ESCAP. “As the world responds to the pandemic and many countries begin to roll out vaccination programmes, we have a unique opportunity to develop a resilient, accessible, inclusive, and affordable health and supply chain system for all,” Srivastava wrote in an e-mail to