QUALITY MEDICINE FOR ALL
QUAMED is a not-for-profit association with a mission to improve access to quality medicines for all.
QUAMED was formed in 2010 under the auspices of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp with funding from the Belgian Government. Since 2017 QUAMED is an independent, not-for-profit association, initially based in France, and now based in Belgium.
QUAMED is a global membership organization that brings together international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), pharmaceutical procurement centers, and engaged individuals focused on assuring the quality of medicines delivered in low- and middle-income countries
OUR GOALS AND STRATEGY
QUAMED is a North/South network, engaged to facilitate sharing of reliable information. We seek to foster learning and drive synergies by pooling skills and resources, both human and financial.
QUAMED leads the technical operationalization of tools that enable procurement agencies, development partners, and donors to respond to immediate needs for Quality Assurance of medicines while anchoring good practice.
By bridging international Quality Assurance norms and standards with the work of NGOs in the field, QUAMED helps to ensure that those norms and standards translate concretely to the delivery of quality medicines to patients – including in settings where implementing partners may struggle to do so.
QUAMED works in complement to and in partnership with ongoing efforts to strengthen regulatory systems, notably the Global Benchmarking Tool, in the context of work plans directed by local regulatory authorities
QUAMED works as much as possible with donor agencies to convince them to put in place a clear and binding pharmaceutical quality assurance policy for the health products they are funding.
OUR CHARTER
Any member of the association adheres to the QUAMED Charter and considers access to quality essential drugs as a human right, universal and inalienable. QUAMED and its members commit themselves therefore to make every effort to improve procurement practices in the pharmaceutical industry and to participate in a wider awareness of the problem. QUAMED is not involved in any manufacturing activity, distribution or sales of drugs.
OUR TEAM
Quamed members (individuals and organisations) have extensive experience in the pharmaceutical, drug regulation and drug supply sectors in non-governmental organizations, international organizations and other institutions. They have worked, and continue to practice, in a wide variety of geographical and socio-economic contexts (Western Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe) in collaboration with organizations such as WHO, the Global Fund, UNICEF, UNITAID and a large number of international NGOs and purchasing organisations.
In addition to the members, QUAMED has a network of external specialists that can be mobilized for consultations, technical support, physical or remote training sessions and other quality assurance related activities.
Operational Team
The QUAMED operational team is multifunctional and combines experience and knowledge from different fields: regulatory issues, pharmacy, economics, management, accounting, purchasing and supply chain management, quality assurance, administration and communication.

Anthony Bourasseau
Quality and Compliance Coordinator

Angelo Urukundo
Communication advisor

Chantal Uwamahoro
Manager for the USAID-funded learning platform

Ed Vreeke
Executive Director

Laurine Lavergne
Technical Coordinator

Linda Gracious Mudyiwenyama
Regulatory Expert

Mary Mzumara-Kadalie
Administration and finance officer

Ulysse A. Ngoa
Regulatory Expert
Technical Committee
The Executive is advised and guided on technical matters by the Technical Committee. The Technical Committee is a committee of the Board of Directors and an advisory body, composed of experienced professionals from the regulatory and industrial environment, NGOs and the United Nations. The Technical Committee currently has 11 members.

Alex Kosyak
Member

Barbara Roth-Neitzert
Member

Cecile Macé
Member

Christophe Perrin
Member

Corinne Pouget
President

Eric Karikari-Boateng
Member

Jérôme Barré
Member

Olivier Andriollo
Vice President

Olivier Depaire
Member

Patrick Lukulay
Member

Sheila Kort
Member

Thomas Chattaway
Member

William Wekwete
Member
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is made up of recognized professionals with extensive international experience in quality and access to medicines.

Arsène Ouedraogo
Member

Cecile Macé
Member

Daniel Berman
Member

Daniel Vandenbergh
President

Edwin de Voogd
Treasurer

Melanie Kempster
Secretary

Patrick Lukulay
Vice-President
Internal Audit Committee
