Reimagining Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Supply Chains

This report calls for national leadership and healthcare sector collaboration to create production capacity for American-sourced and manufactured Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) supplies. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the many vulnerabilities in global supply chains which can make it difficult to access basic supplies, such as PPE. As the pandemic has hit supply chains hard, the reorganization in a post-pandemic world is inevitable and this reorganization must meet the inadequacies and inefficiencies head-on. The report itself is broken into two sections. The first is research on the PPE supply chains and economic analysis of the US PPE industry. The second looks into interviews conducted with health care system executives to review common perspectives and policy recommendations that could tackle the issues COVID-19 has uncovered.