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January 23, 2014
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…
UW Pharmacy Student Completes Advanced Pharmacy Practice Rotation in Namibia
Elise Fields, a fourth year UW pharmacy student, recently returned from an advanced pharmacy practice experience rotation in Windhoek, Namibia, where the University of Washington has a strong institutional relationship with University of Namibia (UNAM), the Ministry of Health and Social Services’ Therapeutics Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre (TIPC), and Management Sciences for Health-Namibia. For this…
Working to make vaccines safer
Locally, Andy Stergachis contributed to an article entitled “Assessing vaccine safety communication with healthcare providers in a large urban county” published in the Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety online. Stergachis teamed up with the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, Public Health – Seattle & King County and the Washington State Pharmacy Association to survey nearly 300 physicians,…
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