E-DRUG: Call for applications for ITM short course "Pharmaceutical Policies
in Health Systems" (deadline 31/01/23)
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Dear E-druggers,
Global health needs a generation of policy-makers who understand the
relevance of coherent and integrated pharmaceutical systems. These systems
are essential to provide equitable, affordable access to appropriately used
essential health products. However, they may face major challenges, such as
underfunding, lack of adequate resources, fragmentation of tasks, lack of
visibility, poor coordination with other components in health systems.
How can programmes and health system managers or policymakers identify these
challenges? How can they design measures for strengthening the
pharmaceutical system within a health system, in a sustainable way?
The objective of this expert short course is to enable participants to
identify challenges in the pharmaceutical systems, framed within the broader
health system; and to propose strategies for strengthening pharmaceutical
systems, and for assessing their performance in achieving equitable access
to essential health products, at the different levels of intervention:
local, district, national, supranational.
The course targets students from
high-, middle- and low-income countries working at different levels in the
Ministry of Health, health programmes, regulatory agencies, NGOs, global
health initiatives and other donor agencies, procurement, health insurance,
etc. Importantly, it is not only targeting pharmacists or specialists in
specific pharmaceutical topics.
You may apply here:
<https://www.itg.be/en/study/courses/pharmaceutical-policies-in-health-syste
ms?tab=about-the-course>
Pharmaceutical policies in health systems |
Institute of Tropical Medicine (itg.be)
Length: 3 weeks
Course date: 30 May 2023 - 16 June 202
Application deadline: 31 January 2023
The ITM has a limited number of scholarships to support the cost of
attending the workshop for a limited number of LMIC-based participants.
With best wishes,
Raffaella Ravinetto
Public Health Department
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Raffaella Ravinetto <rravinetto@itg.be>