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Tanzania Project Synopsis |
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Tuck Field Study in International Business (FSIB) project is part of a
larger, growing relationship between Dartmouth College and Muhimbili
University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania. In November 2005, both schools formally launched a joint
Global Health Initiative (GHI) that will include the creation of an
extended global health program in Tanzania, engaging campus and
community members in a discussion of global health issues, and a
curricular component which will include developing new courses in
global health for undergraduates at Dartmouth College. More specifically to the FSIB project, MUCHS recently received a land grant from the Tanzanian National Government for development and campus expansion. As part of this expansion, the MUCHS School of Pharmacy intends to build a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant on part of this land. The plant would utilize the human capital assets of the instructors, students and recent graduates to manufacturer pharmaceutical products for the domestic market. A portion of the forecasted profits from the plant would be directed towards expanding the School of Pharmacy and improving its teaching and laboratory facilities. MUCHS asked the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Dartmouth Medical School to construct a business and feasibility plan for the plant. Tuck envisions this project as the start to a long-term relationship between Dartmouth and MUCHS and the first of many multidisciplinary projects involving both schools. In December 2005, the Dartmouth team spent three weeks in Dar es Salaam collecting primary data and meeting with various groups relevant to the construction of the plant. The team gathered information on Tanzania's pharmaceutical market and distribution system, the technical and engineering characteristics of a manufacturing plant, as well as potential sources of start-up capital. Our schedule included meetings with MUCHS doctors and pharmacists, Tanzanian government agencies such as the Tanzanian Food and Drug Authority (TFDA), the Tanzanian equivalent to the U.S. FDA, and Medical Stores Department (MSD), the primary national healthcare supplies distributor, and current pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (TPI) and Shelys Pharmaceutical. In addition to the information gathering described above, the team, at the insistence of our clients at MUCHS, managed to experience the wonderful culture of Tanzania by visiting Mikumi National Park for a safari, traveling to the island of Zanzibar to shop in Stone Town and swim in the beautiful northern beaches, and eat fresh-cut coconut from the tree at our client’s house. In all of our meetings and travel, we were honored by the friendliness and generosity of the people we met. In sum, the team’s time in Tanzania was an amazing experience for all involved, and a very successful start to a long-term relationship between the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and MUCHS School of Pharmacy. |
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