News Release: Patient groups and pharma industry collaborate on a NEW guidance note on best practices for interaction

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Geneva, March 17, 2020 - The International Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations ( IFPMA ) and the International Association for Patients’ Associations (IAPO) announce the launch of an advisory Note for Guidance for IFPMA member companies and associations worldwide on...

IAPO's Statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General declared COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID-19 is no longer a small outbreak affecting a few patients and local communities, nor is it a national epidemic affecting a few countries. It is now a true global pandemic affecting every community and country...

Global Patients Congress 16 -18 April 2020 Postponed

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Since January 2020, the Board of Trustees and the GPC 2020 Programme Committee has been closely monitoring the health and travel advice issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), Public Health England, Chief Medical Officer Scotland and the European Commission on the unfolding COVID-19 crisis...

IAPO's 9th Global Patients Congress - An Introduction to our Plenary Sessions

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We are delighted that so many patient advocates have registered to join us at our 9th Global Patients Congress. Registration is still OPEN for all! The theme Innovative healthcare: co-planning, co-designing & co-delivery celebrates how patient engagement and co-creation continues to be...

Early Bird Tickets for GPC2020 still on sale until 28th February 2020!

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The IAPO 9th Global Patients Congress programme has been designed to educate, inspire and motivate our global memmbership and high level health care stakeholders from across the world. You only have just a few short days to book your early bird tickets with the deadline of the 28th February fast...

Open Call for Congress 2020 presentations

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We are delighted to announce that the open call process for presenters for the 9th Global Patients Congress to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland is now live! Please apply below. Each Congress, in line with our mission of actively working with patients' organizations and building them up to be as...

IAPO's participation at the Geneva Health Forum

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The Geneva Health Forum, created in 2006 by the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, takes place every two years bringing together International participants from all sectors as a way of promoting innovative practices that improve care access...

Submit your abstracts for the ISPOR Asia Pacific 2020 Conference

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ISPOR Asia Pacific 2020—a health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) conference themed “The Next Generation Healthcare in Asia Pacific will take place from 12 -15 September. The confrence will be an opportunity for delegates to learn about HEOR’s role in precision medicine,...

Press release: A very exciting partnership

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We are delighted to announce that the International Alliance of Patients Organizations (IAPO) and Upjohn, a Pfizer division have signed a letter of intent to work together to build a sustainable patient-centred approach towards the care of non-communicable diseases (NCD). Through this partnership,...

Insight on universal health coverage from IAPO

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IAPO CEO Kawaldip Sehmi was recently featured on the UHC2030 blog where he gave his persepective through an interview on the role of patients and patients' organizations in achieveing universal health coverage. Do take a look, and feel free to share. “The International Alliance of...

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