News Archive: September 2016

The role of IAPO members in European research projects

Members
IAPO is part of Get Real , a multi-stakeholder research project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) that aims to investigate how real-world evidence can be effectively used in the drug development process. Within the research consortium, IAPO is carrying out research on patients’...

Will the UN General Assembly be able to address the health needs of migrant and refugee patients?

Policy
Board member Hussain Jafri reporting from the multi-stakeholder hearing of the UN General Assembly High-Level Summit on migrants and refugees 18-22 July 2016, United Nations, New York The most vulnerable patients in the world From the jungles of Central America, deserts of North Africa to the...

FIFARMA getting it together for patients in Latin America

Members
Reporting by Kawaldip Sehmi, IAPO CEO, from the FIFARMA strategy meeting in Panama City A good start-invite the patients to observe! Like most of us, you are probably now searching the Internet for the acronym FIFARMA. You will find very little about it! The Federacion Latinoamericana de la...

An African Medicines Agency - any room for African patients engagement?

Members
Board Member Joshua Wamboga reports from the World Health Organization Africa's 66th Regional Committee meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19-23 August 2016 Saving the best for last Africa has a way of dragging out the best for last when it comes to important discussions on health. The World...