Marketing can undermine stewardship, and bioethics as a field should pay closer attention to antimicrobial resistance.

The WHO has a list of essential medicines. What about medicines that might not get to patients who need them on time?

The Strategic National Stockpile is a national system maintained by the US federal government to deliver medical supplies during emergencies, and it needs administrative changes.

Little attention has been given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations’ supply chains of key equipment, such as hand sanitizers and gloves.

When global medical supply chains fail, what should physicians do?

Recent increases in the frequency of shortages require more rationing by clinicians.

Quality control testing is ethically and clinically key to increasing transparency in excipient supply chains.

COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities of US routine and emergency medicine and critical equipment supply chains that introduced urgent need for change.

Should we interrogate our bioproduct supply chains as we have begun interrogating our food supply chains?

Many international experts exchange ideas about vulnerabilities of medical supply chains and how failure to make them more resilient is an ethics problem.