E-DRUG: Helen Clark-JoPPP Award in Pharmaceutical Policy & Practice Research
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Dear Colleagues and Friends
It gives me great pleasure to announce the Helen-Clark JoPPP Award Winners for 2018. The joint winners of the Inaugural Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research are Professor Richard Laing, Global Health, Boston University and Professor Stephen Soumerai, Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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Announcing the inaugural Helen Clark-JoPPP Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the Inaugural Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research;
Richard Laing, Professor: Global Health, Boston University
and Stephen Soumerai, Professor: Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Professors Laing and Soumerai are being presented with the award based on the scientific merit of their work, as well as its impact on patients, decisions makers and on the governments.
Starting in 2018, the annual Helen Clark-Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice (JoPPP) Award recognises the talents of exceptional researchers, who are making a significant contribution to the field of pharmaceutical policy and practice.
The Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister, after whom the Award is named said: "My warm congratulations go to Professors Laing and Soumerai on being awarded The Helen Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research."
Professor Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, chair of the Judging Panel and Editor-in-Chief of the journal said: e
'This Award is a significant step towards the promotion of pharmaceutical policy and practice research - a much needed area.e'
Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Kind Regards
Zaheer
Professor Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar PhD
Professor in Medicines and Healthcare
Department of Pharmacy, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, HD1 3DH
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Zaheer Babar <Z.Babar@hud.ac.uk>