E-DRUG: Draft Programme - 4th PPRI Conference, 23-24 October 2019 Vienna Austria
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Dear E-Druggers,
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and
Reimbursement Policies organises the 4th international PPRI Conference,
entitled `Medicines access challenge - The value of pricing and
reimbursement policies', held in Vienna on 23-24 October 2019.
The Draft Programme is now available: [1]
https://ppri.goeg.at/ppriconference2019_programme
Confirmed speakers:
* Brigitte Zarfl, Austrian Minister of Labour, Social Affairs, Health
and Consumer Protection
* Marcel van Raaij, Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports
* Florian Turk, Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals, Germany
* Luca Li Bassi, Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA)
* Suerie Moon, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
* Sarah Garner, WHO Regional Office for Europe
* Gaelle Krikorian, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
* Valerie Paris, OECD, France
* and many more...
Access to medicines still remains a challenge in the twenty-first
century, and policy-makers aim to balance the partially conflicting
objectives of providing access to medicines, containing costs and
rewarding innovation in pharmaceutical development. In recent years,
some very expensive medicines have entered the markets, putting the
long-term financial sustainability of health systems at risk. In this
context, the design of the pricing and reimbursement policies is key:
innovative approaches are needed to tackle the medicine access
challenge!
The conference aims to bring together thought leaders from around the
globe to discuss `burning' issues in pricing and reimbursement policies
of medicines - both from a global as well as European perspective.
Current challenges and opportunities will be discussed, in particular
limitations and improvement of current policies and innovative options
for the future.
In order to foster the debate on equitable access to affordable and
cost-effective medicines, the following perspectives will be discussed
at the conference:
· Strand 1: Local challenges, global learnings? What can other
countries learn from best-practice examples in the field of pricing and
reimbursement of medicines?
· Strand 2: `Fake' prices - Are price surveys still useful? The value
of list prices against the backdrop of external price referencing and
managed entry agreements.
· Strand 3: Fix the future? Innovative policy options need to be
developed, agreed upon and implemented.
For further information on the Conference please visit the Conference Website:
[2] https://ppri.goeg.at/ppriconference2019
Registration for the Conference:
[3] http://events.goeg.at
Do not hesitate to contact the PPRI Conference Organizing Team:
[4] ppriconference@goeg.at
Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and with your networks.
Kind regards,
Nina Zimmermann
Vienna WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies
[5] ppriconference@goeg.at
References
1. https://ppri.goeg.at/ppriconference2019_programme
2. https://ppri.goeg.at/ppriconference2019
3. http://events.goeg.at/
4. mailto:ppriconference@goeg.at
5. mailto:ppriconference@goeg.at
"Nina Zimmermann" <n.zimmermann@gmx.at>