E-DRUG: Open Call for Experts: WHO Technical Advisory Group on Local Production & Technology Transfer of Health Products
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Open Call for Experts: WHO Technical Advisory Group on Local Production & Technology Transfer of Health Products
On behalf of the Local Production and Assistance (LPA) Unit, WHO, headed by Dr. Jicui Dong, we have the pleasure to announce an open call for experts to establish a WHO Technical Advisory Group on Local Production and Technology Transfer of Health Products (TAG-LPTT). The TAG-LPTT will act as an advisory body to WHO and the LPA Unit in this field of promoting and strengthening sustainable local production and technology transfer to improve access to quality, safe and effective health products.
WHO launched a new initiative, the World Local Production Forum: Enhancing access to medicines and other health technologies (WLPF), with the LPA Unit as the WLPF Secretariat. The WLPF regularly brings the global community together to discourse on important aspects of strengthening local production and technology transfer and collectively shape the direction of local production of essential health products globally.
The first WLPF was convened in June 2021 with Ministers, delegates of > 100 Member States, heads of UN agencies & international organizations, academia and other key stakeholders. One recommendation of the first WLPF is the formation of a technical advisory group to address current and future global challenges and trends in local production and technology transfer.
More information on the open call and the terms of reference for the TAG-LPTT can be found at this weblink:
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/who-technical-advisory-group-on-local-production-and-technology-transfer.
Please feel free to share the open call for experts and the weblink within your networks. The deadline to receive all expressions of interest is 10 September 2022.
Sincerely,
Mr. David Woo
Technical Officer
Local Production & Assistance Unit (LPA)
Regulation and Prequalification Department (RPQ)
Access to Medicines and Health Products Division (MHP)
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
"WOO, David" <wood@who.int>