E-DRUG: URGENT Sept 24: Webinar informal med.markets: Recent findings, future directions
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Hi E-Druggers,
I have been asked to post information about this event happening on Wednesday September 24th.
This looks like being a very interesting seminar with an impressive panel of participants.
You do need to register so please do that in advance,
Richard Laing
Professor International Health
Boston University School of Public Health,
801 Massachusetts Avenue Boston MA 02118
Tel 617 414 1445 (Office) 617 435 7860 (Mobile)
E mail richardl@bu.edu<mailto:richardl@bu.edu>
http://www.bu.edu/pharm/the-program/
Skype richardl1951
Governance of informal medicine markets: Recent findings, future directions
Wed, Sep 24, 2014 14:00 - 15:00 British Standard Time (09:00 Eastern Daylight Time (US), 15:00 Central European Time, 16:00 East African Time, 18:30 Indian Standard Time, 21:00 in Beijing)
Further details are below. Please register using the link in advance. Email Ann Wilkinson at a.wilkinson@ids.ac.uk with any queries.
With the increasing global attention to antibiotic resistance, how can we ensure that regulation is plausible and takes informal healthcare markets into account? This webinar will give a sneak preview of the upcoming flagship report from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research on Medicines in Health Systems. The aim is to kick start a discussion on future research on interventions in informal medicine markets and the problem of antibiotic resistance.
Two of the report's authors, Maryam Bigdeli and David Peters, will present the report. Maryam will start with a general overview. David will then focus on describing market failures and their consequences. He will also discuss potential interventions, including case studies, to improve health market systems. This will be followed by comment from Göran Tomson before leading into a brainstorming discussion among participants.
The discussion, steered by Gerry Bloom, will centre on the evidence base on regulation and informal health care markets. During the discussion we hope to identify what kind of research can be carried out with informal health market actors in order to identify plausible and effective governance arrangements. The webinar will begin a process of developing concrete research strategies and proposals to inform policy which will be facilitated by further webinars and, for those present, discussions at the Health Systems Global Symposium in Cape Town.
Chair:
Dr Gerry Bloom, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex
Speakers:
Dr Maryam Bigdeli, Programme Officer, World Health Organization
Dr David Peters, Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Discussant:
Dr Göran Tomson, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Best wishes,
Annie
Annie Wilkinson
Postdoctoral Researcher, KNOTS Team
Institute of Development Studies
www.ids.ac.uk
Tel: 0044 (0)1273 915602
"Laing, Richard" <richardl@bu.edu>