# \[e-drug\] Conference Jan 27-29, 2020, Bangkok: People Improving Use of Medicines. **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [August 14, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-conference-jan-27-29-2020-bangkok-people-improving-use-of-medicines/45244 "2019-08-14T09:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kathleen\_Holloway1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@Kathleen\_Holloway1](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/Kathleen_Holloway1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-conference-jan-27-29-2020-bangkok-people-improving-use-of-medicines/45244/1 "2019-08-14T09:24:05Z")
E-DRUG: Conference Jan 27-29, 2020, Bangkok: People Improving Use of Medicines. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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