January 23, 2014
Graduate Student Assisting with Pharmacy Management in Afghanistan
Graduate student Norio Kasahara, MPH, has been working for the Urban Health Systems Strengthening Project in Afghanistan as Technical Advisor since 2011, which is funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). One of the project objectives is to develop capacity of sub-national public health department. As the Afghan Ministry of Public Health prioritizes improvement of the pharmacy management,…
Expanded Access to Contraception Provides Economic Benefits to Sub-Saharan African Country
Two papers were recently published highlighting the work of Joseph Babigumira and colleagues on the economic analyses of unsafe abortions and on increasing access to contraception in Uganda. His work used modeling methods to show that unsafe abortions cost the country substantial resources and that providing universal access to modern contraceptives would be highly cost-effective. Recent news stories, such as…
Strengthening Developing Nations’ Regulatory Capacity to Ensure That Imported Foods and Drugs Are Safe: Newly Released Report
Andy Stergachis served on a committee of the Institute of Medicine on strengthening food and drug safety regulation in developing countries. The report of the committee, Ensuring Safe Foods and Medical Products through Stronger Regulatory Systems Abroad, was released on April 4, 2012. More than 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients and 40 percent of finished drugs come…
Global Medicines Program featured on Humanosphere
Becky Bartlein was featured as a “Changemaker” millenial to watch and interviewed here. Andy Stergachis was highlighted in an article about the release of an Institute of Medicine Report that he co-authored, entitled “Ensuring Safe Foods and Medical Products Through Stronger Regulatory Systems Abroad” and discussed the dangers of counterfeit medicines here.
Visitors to Global Medicines Program: Drs. Alex Dodoo and Feiko ter Kuile
The Global Medicines Program welcomed two esteemed colleagues over the past week, Dr. Alex Dodoo, BPharm, MSc, PhD and Dr. Feiko ter Kuile, MD, PhD. Dr Dodoo is a pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist and Head of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Ghana Medical School and Head of a new WHO Collaborating…
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