E-DRUG: Conference Jan 27-29, 2020, Bangkok: People Improving Use of Medicines.
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Dear E-Druggers,
Please find below an announcement of a conference which I am sure will be
of interest to many of you.
People Improving the Use of Medicines: What We Know and Don't Know!
Location and dates: *Bangkok, Thailand from 27th to 29th January, 2020.
Purpose and objectives
The purpose of the meeting is to reinvigorate the movement for rational use
of medicines by sharing new knowledge and experiences on how to improve
medicines use and agreeing on a plan for future ISIUM (International
Society to improve the use of medicines) work. The objectives are:
1. To understand rational use of medicines and therapeutic practices in
terms of new knowledge and perspectives.
2. To share experiences in people's education and empowerment in improving
the use of medicines and therapeutic practices.
3. To explore what governments and other stakeholders should and could do
to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines, and how they may be held
to account.
4. To define priority areas for future ISIUM work on improving the use of
medicines and its promotion, with a focus on people's empowerment.
Conference organising committee
The conference is being organised on behalf of ISIUM by Arturo Quizhpe
(Chair, Ecuador), Natalia Cebotarenco (Moldova), Kathleen Holloway (United
Kingdom), Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee (Thailand), Mary Murray
(Australia/Sweden) Eva Ombaka (Tanzania), Debra Rowett (Australia), and
Budiono Santoso (Indonesia). Mary Hemming and Mary Murray are acting as the
conference secretariat.
Dear friends,
In recent years we have witnessed a deepening of the medicalisation of
life, while the gap has increased between those who have access to medical
services and those who lack health coverage.
What is Health? What is Medicine? These are some of the questions which
require objectivity, transparency and broad dialogue at community level and
in the facilities of the official health system. *
ISIUM has taken up this challenge with passion and commitment, and now has
the chance to hold its first international meeting in the city of Bangkok
in Thailand.
This meeting is a special moment - the starting point to take up the new
challenges in science and in the empirical experiences of communities that
struggle for access to medicines as part of the right to health that
belongs to every human being on the planet.
Affectionately and respectfully, we call upon everyone with an interest in
rational use of medicines to contribute your innate experience, scientific
training and humanity to the success of our meeting. We need your
knowledge, work and joy to make this conference a success.
Arturo Quizhpe Peralta
Chair, Conference Organising Committee
More information
Further details regarding the program, keynote speakers, abstracts will be
circulated. In the meantime, SAVE THE DATES!
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST by sending an email to
bangkok.2020@isium.org
with your name, institution and contact details.
International Society to Improve the Use of Medicines (ISIUM)
ACN 613 610 683
6/137 McKean Street
Fitzroy North, Victoria 3068 Australia
Best wishes
Kathleen Holloway
Institute of Development Studies
Sussex University, UK
Email: kaholloway54@gmail.com