E-DRUG: HAI CONFERENCE 2006
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Dear Friends,
This is just a reminder about the HAI Europe 25th Anniversary Conference
'Pills, Politics and Practice: Demanding people-centred medicines policy in the 21st century' to be held at the beautiful De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 October 2006
We have put together what we think is a very exciting and stimulating programme (see below) and further details can be found on the HAI website (www.haiweb.org). We are also organising special events around the conference to celebrate HAI's Silver Jubilee - this is a must on your conference calendar!
Registration is open and places are going fast, so if you haven't yet registered you need to do so now!
Thursday 26th October
1.30 Opening Speeches
2.00pm Access to Essential Drugs
Martin Khor - Essential Health and R&D
Ellen 't Hoen - International Trade and Access
Roberto Lopez - The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Access in Latin America
3.30pm Afternoon Tea
Colleen Daniels - PPI's Successes, Failures and Cautions
Margaret Ewen - Paying the Price
5.00 Panel Discussion
Panel Chair - Hans Hogerzeil
Discussants - Ayyaz Kiani
Speakers
6.00 Cocktails and Jazz
Friday 27th October
9.00 Rationality Use of Medicines
David Healy - Future Rationality and SSRIs
Barbara Mintzes - Advertising and Promotion
Danielle Bardelay - No Rational Use without Access to Data: The fight for
transparency in Europe
10.10 Morning Coffee
Ralph Edwards - Pharmacovigilance
David Henry - Disease Mongering: Redefining disease for profit not health
Sidney Wolfe - Campaigning for Rational Use
12.00 Panel Discussion
Panel Chair: Dr. K. Balasubramaniam 'Bala'
Discussant: Pascale Brudon (t.b.c.)
Speakers
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Democratisation of Medicines Policy - Ethical Dilemmas and Civil Society interventions
Aubrey Blumsohn - Threats to Truth-telling in Pharmaceutical Research
Aarti Patel - Civil Society Interventions in an African Context
Xiao Xia Hu - Patients' and Consumers' Influence on Medicines Policy in China
3.10 Afternoon Tea
Nancy Olivieri - Corporate Accountability in the EU
Graham Dukes - Politics, Laws and Medicines
4.30 Panel Discussion
Panel Chair: Zafar Mirza
Discussant: Donald Light
Speakers
5.30 Summary and Conference Closure
Anniversary Dinner
This will be held in the Flamingo Room at Artis Congress Centre,
Plantage Middenlaan 41a - 43, Amsterdam, starting at 8 p.m.
Dr Tim Reed, Director
Health Action International (HAI) Europe
Jacob van Lennepkade 334T
1053 NJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 683 3684
Fax: +31 20685 5002
Email: tim@haiweb.org
Website: http://www.haiweb.org
Health Action International (HAI) is an independent, global network working to increase access to essential medicines and improve their rational use.