E-DRUG: WHOCC Online Summer School Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies 18-22 July 2022
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear E-Druggers,
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and
Reimbursement Policies, located at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH
(GÖG/Austrian National Public Health Institute) in Vienna is pleased to
offer the second online Summer School on Pharmaceutical Pricing and
Reimbursement Policies.
Addressing a global audience of policy-makers and technical experts in
public authorities who work on pricing and reimbursement of medicines,
this Summer School offers opportunities to gain insight into up-to-date
evidence and policy experience, to discuss practical examples and to
interact with experts and peers confronted with similar challenges in
promoting Universal Health Coverage and access to medicines.
This online Summer School will use a variety of mixed methods to make
the course experience inspiring, informative and interactive.
Course language is English.
When? 18 - 22 July 2022 - online
Who should attend?
The summer school is targeted at:
- Representatives of competent authorities in the field of pricing
and reimbursement of medicines (policy-makers, technical staff),
and
- Payers in the health care system (e.g. health insurance
institutions / sickness funds, ministries, medicines agencies,
private health insurance institutions).
Newcomers in this field and/or experienced professionals who would like
to deepen and share their knowledge are welcome to apply. Participants
from all over the globe are accepted. The Summer School accepts a
maximum of 30 participants.
Participants from all over the globe are welcome.
Learning objectives
- Understand basic concepts, frameworks and taxonomies such as
Universal Health Coverage, access to essential medicines,
transparency and the pharmaceutical value chain
- Learn about the aims and implications of different pharmaceutical
pricing and reimbursement policies
- Learn to prepare, implement and evaluate a medicines policy and
understand the differences in the methodological design of a
policy
- Be provided with a toolbox of policies and gain capacity to adapt
policies to changing environments
- Get to know up-to-date scientific evidence and learn from
experiences of other countries
Organisers:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement
Policies, Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit
Österreich GmbH)
Details: For more information (application, fees, detailed programme)
please visit the Summer School website:
[1]https://ppri.goeg.at/summerschool2022
Don't miss this opportunity to learn about pharmaceutical policies, to
discuss the incentives and dynamics behind with scientific experts and
peers in other countries!
Contact: [2]whocc@goeg.at
Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and with
your networks.
If you are more interested in an on-site summer school (instead of
online), please have a look at the Utrecht Summer School on
"Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis" - more information available [3]here.
References
1. https://ppri.goeg.at/summerschool2022
2. mailto:whocc@goeg.at
3. https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life-sciences/pharmaceutical-policy-analysis
Kind regards,
Nina Zimmermann
Vienna WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and
Reimbursement Policies / Austrian National Public Health Institute
Nina Zimmermann <n.zimmermann@gmx.at>