January 23, 2014
Global Medicines Faculty and MSH Offer Pharmacoeconomics Training of Trainers Workshop in South Africa
Lou Garrison and Joseph Babigumira conducted a training of trainers workshop “Applying Pharmacoeconomics to Essential Medicines Selection” April 10-12, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The workshop was offered in conjunction with Management Sciences for Health (MSH) through the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program. The twenty workshop attendees were mostly…
In the news: Interview with Joseph Babigumira
May 9, 2012 – Joseph Babigumira profiled on the UW School of Public Health website for his innovative global health work. Read the article here
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…
