Our Mission
E-Quality Partners, LLC is committed to being an equal partner in client success.
We work with you to develop your quality management system to maturity.
Implementation of a strong quality management system adherent with the WHO MQAS or WHO GLPs improves access to direct funding opportunities from international donor agencies and international procurement agencies (IPAs), thereby providing increased opportunities for organizations in LMICs. E-QP technical consultants are experts in the field of quality assurance for medical supply chains, and we operate on the principle of empowering our clients to become strong partners in the provision of health commodities to their communities.
Improving an organization’s quality management system is a complex and dynamic process that requires sustained attention and resources. An organization’s ability to implement the concepts described in the WHO MQAS and other internationally recognized best practice guidance documents depends upon three C’s:
Commitment
The willingness of management to integrate quality management principles into its operation.
Capacity
The education and knowledge of its leaders and employees.
Capital
The availability of capital to implement and maintain the quality management system.
If your organization has the commitment to improve its quality management system, E-QP will support the training and education of your team to learn quality management principles, provide standardized tools for implementation of a quality management system and work with your organization to grow and maintain your quality management system.
Our Strategy
Baseline Assessment & Technical Assistance for Quality Compliance:
First, we conduct a baseline assessment of the organization’s current quality management system to identify gaps in compliance with the appropriate standard. This baseline assessment places the organization in one of 3 maturity levels, which will support E-QP’s understanding of the level of effort required to support the development of the organization’s quality management system.
Level 1 – Basic
Level 2 – Intermediary
Level 3 – Advanced
Once placed in a maturity level, E-QP will provide technical assistance by working with staff on training and quality system development, using a combination of on-site and remote support, mobile phone-based training modules, interactive remote training sessions and the provision of the customized tools, SOPs, forms and questionnaires to support the organization’s activities.
Assessing the baseline quality management system and providing technical assistance in the form of training and customization of process tools are the first steps but implementing and maintaining a quality management system is critical to an organization’s ability to secure new sources of revenue, including international clients. E-QP can provide guidance on ways to continually support quality management system implementation and prepare your organization for an external audit to achieve quality compliance.
Meet our Team
Our Principal Director, Mrs. Britta Ranade, B. Eng, MPH, MBA, founded E-QP to provide organizations with the technical support, training and capacity-building they need to implement a quality management system consistent with an internationally recognized standard (ISO, MQAS, GMP, GDP, GLP).
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Britta Ranade - B. Eng, MPH, MBA
PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR
Britta trained as a biomedical engineer and spent several years working for 3M Health Care in their Medical Sales Division. She has over twelve years of quality assurance experience with international pharmaceutical and medical device supply chains, during which time she has worked with international procurement and funding agencies, national medicine regulatory authorities, WHO, and privately held medical importers, wholesalers, and distributors of all sizes.
Britta was the PFSCM Product Quality Assurance Manager, which held supply contracts with the USAID-funded Supply Chain Management Systems (SCMS) project and The Global Fund (TGF) project. She developed and supported PFSCM’s quality management system and its attainment of ISO 9001:2015 certification. She has audited pharmaceutical and laboratory/medical device wholesalers, manufacturers, laboratories, and food manufacturers, most of which were in LMICs. She also assessed the quality management systems of potential partners to determine eligibility as a procurement partner or recipient of international donor funding.
Britta was a member of the technical working committee for the 2013 revision of the WHO MQAS. As an independent consultant, she continues to support public health consulting companies, including JSI and FHI360, in the execution of health commodity supply chain projects funded by USAID, The Global Fund and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Britta has lived experience in Benin, West Africa as a rural community health volunteer with the Peace Corps and is conversant in French.
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Lines Millord - B.Sc
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Lines Millord is a Technical Consultant with E-Quality Partners, LLC. She has more than 13 years of technical experience in the areas of quality control (QC), quality assurance (QA) and quality management systems (QMS) within different industries. Lines has a degree in Chemistry with a minor in Biology from Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. She spent 5 years in New York performing bench chemistry in pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratories. After which, she joined the PEPFAR-funded Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) project in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was established to provide life-saving pharmaceutical products and lab supplies to patients under USAID leadership, ensuring compliance with good storage and distribution practices of medical products throughout the country.
Since the conclusion of SCMS, Lines extended her expertise to the food/ beverage and plastics manufacturing industry by working with multiple organizations to standardize their different processes through the establishment of a strong QMS. Her work with these companies, evolving in an environment with limited resources, has been focused on the implementation of ISO 9001: 2015 and FSSC 2002 V5. Since joining E-QP, Lines continues to provide technical assistance to organizations in low- and medium-income countries (LMIC), helping them strengthen their quality management system (QMS) as they work towards ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 accreditation or ISO 9001: 2015 certification. Driven by her passion for organizational structure, Lines takes pride in providing training to organizations and working collaboratively with them to develop and implement strong quality management systems.
Lines is Haitian-American, and splits her time between Providence, Rhode Island, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Ashvini Gahunia - B.Sc, BKin
PROJECT MANAGER
Ashvini has over six years of experience in project management and project planning roles, primarily with healthcare companies in Canada. She led the initiation of medical service projects, which included meetings with senior company officials, and created a structured approach for project completion. She is also experienced in ongoing project monitoring and management, which includes coordinating across functional teams to ensure integration of efforts is maintained. Since joining E-QP, Ashvini has been able to assess performance metrics during and at the completion of ongoing projects, has identified areas for improvement, and recorded elements that worked well to implement for future projects.
