January 23, 2014
UW Global Medicines Program a core partner to MSH’s new Award from USAID
The UW Global Medicines Program is a core partner to a newly awarded cooperative agreement to Management Sciences for Health (MSH) by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This a five-year $197.9 million Cooperative Agreement for the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program follows the current Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS)…
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,…
Global Medicines Program Participates in Third International Conference for Improving Use of Medicines (ICIUM)
The Third International Conference for Improving Use of Medicines (ICIUM) will be held November 14-18 in Antalya, Turkey. Andy Stergachis will be participating as a co-author for the following presentations and posters: Genital Ulcer Disease Treatment Policies and Access to Acyclovir in Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries. Catherine Wairimu Corbell, Andy Stergachis, Francis Ndowa, Patrick Ndase, Linda Barnes, Connie…
Opinion piece on the importance of drug monitoring published in The Scientist
September 13, 2011 – Andy Stergachis is featured in on the UW School of Public Health’s website in a Q&A session entitled “Keeping Medicines Safe in a Global Economy” following the publication of his August 31 opinion piece in The Scientist. His opinion piece, entitled “Sustainable Drug Monitoring: Pharmacovigilance must keep pace with global distribution of drugs in resource-limited settings,” co-authored with Jur Strobos,…
Vietnam: Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems Technical Assistance and Training Activity
Andy Stergachis and Jude Nwokike of Management Sciences for Health (MSH) participated in a training workshop in Hanoi from September 14-15, 2011 on sentinel site-based active surveillance pharmacovigilance for antiretorviral therapy (ART) in Vietnam. Topics covered in the workshop included an introduction to the activity, review of the protocol, systems and stakeholders roles and responsibilities,…
