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Agenda
| Tuesday, November 27, 2001 |
8:30 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
10:00 am |
Welcome and opening remarks (Catherine D. Crone Coburn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Management Sciences for Health) |
10:15 am |
Overview of Center for Pharmaceutical Management programs (James R. Rankin, Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health) |
10:30 am |
Keynote address: Access to Essential Medicines: Staggering Inequities-Unparalleled Opportunities (Jonathan D. Quick, Director, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, World Health Organization) |
11:15 am
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Symposium: Targeting Improved Access
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12:45 pm
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Lunch
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1:45 pm
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Symposium (continued)
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3:15 pm
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Break
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3:45 pm
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Symposium (continued)
A Systems Approach to the Design and Implementation of Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Programs (Malcolm Bryant, Director, HIV/TB and Community-Based Programs, Center for Health Services, Management Sciences for Health)
The Role of Product Quality Testing in an Integrated National Quality Assurance Strategy (Thomas P. Layloff, Principal Program Associate, Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health)
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| 5:15 pm |
Closing remarks: Making an Impact (Ronald W. O'Connor, Chief Executive Officer, Management Sciences for Health) |
6:00 pm
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Reception
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 To the Top
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| Wednesday, November 28, 2001 |
8:00 am
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Breakfast
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8:30 am
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The World Drug Situation: Differences and Gaps Between Countries (Marthe Everard, Technical Officer, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, World Health Organization)
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8:45 am
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Measuring Access to Essential Medicines: The SEAM Approach (David Lee, Deputy Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health)
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9:15 am |
Access to Essential Medicines: Country Case Studies and Reports |
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- Brazil-State of Minas Gerais (Francisco Acurcio, Federal University, Minas Gerais, and Josiano Gomes Chaves, Ministry of Health, Brazil)
- Cambodia (Chroeng Sokhan, Ministry of Health, Cambodia)
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10:35 am
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Break
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10:50 am |
Access to Essential Medicines: Country Case Studies and Reports (continued) |
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- El Salvador (Jose Francisco Lopez Beltran, Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, Ministry of Health, El Salvador)
- Ghana (Daniel Kojo-Arhinful, Medical Sociologist, University of Ghana, and Francis Aboagye-Nyame, Head, Procurement Unit, Ministry of Health, Ghana)
- India - State of Rajasthan (Shiv D. Gupta, Director, Indian Institute of Health Management Research and Paul Lalvani, Independent Consultant)
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12:50 pm
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Lunch
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1:45 pm |
Access to Essential Medicines: Country Case Studies and Reports (continued) |
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- Tanzania (Gabriel Upunda, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Tanzania)
- Senegal (Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Health Minister, Ministry of Health, Senegal, and Louis Teulieres, Syndicat National de l'Industrie Pharmaceutique (SNIP), France)
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3:10 pm
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Break
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| 3:30 pm |
SEAM Access Framework in Action (Maria A. Miralles, Research and Evaluation Manager, Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health) |
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Overview of Potential Strategies for Improving Access and Use (David Lee, Deputy Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health) |
4:15 pm
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Break
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4:30 pm |
Roundtable Discussions of Strategies for Improving Access and Use
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- Procurement Initiatives
Moderator-Henk den Besten, International Dispensary Association, The Netherlands
- Rational Drug Use and Pharmaceutical Care Initiatives
Moderator-David Ofori-Adjei, Director, Noguchi Institute, University of Ghana, Ghana
- Franchise Initiatives
Moderator-Zafrullah Chowdhury, Gonoshasthaya Kendra (The People's Health Center), Bangladesh
- Community-Based Care Initiatives
Moderator-Chitr Sitthi-amorn, Professor, School of Public Health, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Information, Communications, and Education Initiatives
Moderator-Jorge Jimenez de la Jara, Past-President, Executive Board, World Health Organization, and Professor of Public Health, Universidad Católica, Chile
- Ensuring Drug Product Quality
Moderator-M. N. Graham Dukes, Professor Emeritus, Drug Policy Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Advisor, Drug Policy Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
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6:00 pm
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Conclusion of roundtables
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| To the Top
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| Thursday, November 29, 2001 |
8:00 am
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Breakfast
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8:30 am
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Roundtable discussions (second series)
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Closing Address (Oscar Arias Sánchez, President, Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano, San José, Costa Rica)
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| 11:15 am |
Break |
11:30 am
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Roundtable reports and discussion
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12:45 pm
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The World Health Organization's Perspective (Jonathan D. Quick, World Health Organization)
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1:00 pm
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Next steps and closing remarks (Ronald W. O'Connor and James R. Rankin, Management Sciences for Health)
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1:15 pm
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Adjourn; Lunch
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