Raffaella’s literature update

Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref Hauk C, SchafermannS, Martus P, Muzafarova N, Babaley M, Waning B, et al. (2020) Quality assurance in anti-tuberculosis drug procurement by the Stop TB Partnership—Global Drug Facility: Procedures, costs, time requirements, and comparison of assay and dissolution results by manufacturers and by external analysis. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243428.  ...

Access to medicines: EPHA

The European Public Health Alliance organises a series of online discussions on key access to medicines (A2M) priorities bringing together thought leaders and policy-makers, academics, industry representatives and NGOs, for a frank discussion of European pharmaceutical policies. The next one is on the 8th of December. The topic is: “Will the EU be a wise ...

EC meeting on Covid-19 vaccines

The European Commission is organising a #covid meeting on vaccines: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/public-stakeholder-meeting-development-authorisation-safe-effective-covid-19-vaccines-eu Their event summary: “EMA is organising this virtual meeting to explain the processes for the development, evaluation, approval and safety monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU, including EMA’s specific role, to all interested parties. It will also give the opportunity to the public and ...

Vacancy French Red Cross: a pharmacist

Dear colleagues, the French Red Cross is looking for a pharmacist to work specifically on the quality assurance of the health products that are used in their programs. The terms of reference are attached (in French). Very interesting! See also: https://emploi.national.croix-rouge.fr/fe/tpl_CroixRouge01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=84152,7187653498&key=72008389&c=585771524612&pagestamp=segvvddocjnbtkrbos

Various experts sought: SCF and UNDP

Save the Children Fund SCF is looking for a permanent Global Pharmacy Advisor in any Save the Children Office location. “As a core member of the medical team, the Global Pharmacy Advisor will lead on the pharmacy services workstream and will contribute to achieving the team’s 2019-21 strategic objectives by working across the following areas ...

Winter meeting

You may have received the invitation also. https://9c71bb45befa40050df1cd209-11363.sites.k-hosting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Invitation-virtual-winter-meeting_2021_final.pdf The Utrecht Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation will organise a Winter meeting for researchers in the field of pharmaceutical policy analysis and regulatory science from 12-14 January 2021. The meeting will be online with shorter sessions spread over three instead of two days. Contents of the meetingKeynote lectures ...

CDC: Covid-19 toolkits

Toolkit for Businesses & Workplaces Interesting and useful guidance and tools are available on the CDC website to make workplaces and businesses safer in regard to Covid-19. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/toolkits/business-workplaces.html?ACSTrackingID=SCDC_2067-DM41308&ACSTrackingLabel=Toolkit%20for%20Youth%20Sports%20%7C%20COVID-19&deliveryName=SCDC_2067-DM41308

New course on Pharmaceutical policies in health systems

The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Belgium will organize in June 2021 its first short course in “Pharmaceutical policies in health systems”. The aim of this 3-week course is to enable participants to develop a general understanding of the individual components of pharmaceutical systems, and of the whole system they constitute together; and a practical understanding of those ...

UNHCR pharmacy position

Over the past few years we have had a great collaboration with UNHCR doing local market assessments and audits in a number of countries. We were just informed by them that they are looking for a new Pharmacy Management Officer to be based in Geneva, Switzerland. Please have a look and distribute in your network ...

Sub-standard and falsified medicines in Latin America

Another interesting article was just published on sub-standard and falsified medicines in Latin America: Substandard, falsified and unregistered medicines in Latin America, 2017-2018. It can be downloaded following this link: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2020.125. It is open access from the PAHO journal. Rev Panam Salud Publica 44, 2020 The abstract: Objective. To assess all the incidents of substandard, ...

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