The newest Change Maker Chronicle is here! Drug shortages are still impacting patients every day, but together we are pushing forward. See how we’re raising awareness, fostering advocacy, and building resilent drug supply chains to end drug shortages NOW.
Angels for Change is proud to announce a major Project PROTECT milestone: our partner Fagron Sterile Services is now fully production-ready with new U.S. capacity for Sterile Water for Injection—a critical component used in countless injectable medicines.
This marks the second successful Project PROTECT collaboration with Fagron, following earlier investments that helped protect patients during the IV fluid shortage in 2024. By investing in domestic manufacturing infrastructure, we’re strengthening the resilience of the U.S. drug supply and protecting patients before shortages occur.
We don’t just talk about ending drug shortages—we’re creating solutions that build onshore readiness, strengthen supply chains, and protect patient access to lifesaving medicines.
Laura Bray and Angels for Change highlighted in the newly released white paper from the API Innovation Center, “Fragility to Resilience: Aligning Investment and Purchasing to Secure America’s Drug Supply Chain.”
Bray emphasized a clear call to action for leaders across the healthcare ecosystem to work together to solve the drug shortage crisis:
“This is not the patient’s job to solve at all… This is a supply chain failure.”
Drug shortages are making national headlines again as families search for critical medicines like leucovorin. In a recent CNN article, Angels for Change founder Laura Bray highlights how the crisis was predictable—and preventable. Through Project GOLD, Angels for Change works across the supply chain to locate scarce medications and help patients access the treatments they depend on, because no family should have to face a shortage alone.
At Angels for Change, we are proud to participate in the important work of the End Drug Shortages Alliance — serving as both an EDSA member organization and advising partner in the Drug Resiliency & Transparency Pilot.
The initial phase of the pilot demonstrated a powerful truth: when leaders come together early through trusted, neutral governance, transparency delivers real planning value.
Angels for Change, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending drug shortages, hosted the fifth annual SummitONE conference on July 8 and 9 at Fresenius Kabi’s U.S. headquarters in Lake Zurich, Illinois. SummitONE is the only annual conference that gathers supply chain leaders, drug shortage experts, policy makers, and patients to discuss solutions to end drug shortages.
Angels for Change, a global non-profit on a mission to end drug shortages, presented the organization’s 2024 Drug Shortage Guardian Award to Fresenius Kabi (USA), a global health care company that specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion, and clinical nutrition headquartered in Lake Zurich, IL.
Thank you Spotlight on America and Lisa Fletcher for bringing awareness to drug shortages, Laura's work with the White House Task Force, the new HHS preventing drug shortages white paper, and the actionable steps we must take to solve this crisis.
May 2nd, 2024, The News on Merit Street interviewed Chief Change Maker, Laura Bray, who shared our story and how our Shortage Crisis Line and Global Supply Sharing Network works to help patients in need of life-saving medicines.
Thank you CPHI Online for bringing awareness to drug shortages and highlighting the work our Chief Change Maker, Laura Bray is doing to end this crisis.
“How do we have a more resilient and reliable pharmaceutical supply chain? How do we ensure that we have just in case supply? How do we ensure that that supply gets to everybody without disparity? How do we ensure stewardship of that supply? How do we build a system that ensures access? Those are all the things we work towards. That's the big picture.” - Laura Bray
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Every conversation, partnership, and shared story brings us closer to a future without drug shortages. At Angels for Change, we’re proud to march forth for patients everywhere.
