IFPMA Asia Regulatory Conference 2020
Registrations for IFPMA ARC2020 are open! Join IFPMA's 10th Asia Regulatory Conference, 12-13 Feb. 2020 on “Building Trust & Partnership to Deliver UHC in Asia” and participate in discussions on regulatory frameworks for patients, UHC and much more
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Global Health Progress - Collaborating for a sustainable future
Global Health Progress is an interactive knowledge hub highlighting over 200 collaborations between the innovative biopharmaceutical industry & more than 850 diverse partners to support the SDGs & drive cross-sector collaboration. Explore our collaborations & learn more
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Achieving a Healthier and Sustainable Future for All - Policy Perspectives on Universal Health Coverage from the Innovative Biopharmaceutical Industry
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Stepping up the Fight: Industry Collaboration to End HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Now is the time to step up our fight against HIV, TB and malaria — we must do more, innovate more, and most importantly, partner more.
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Thought Leader Series on Vaccines
In this special series on vaccines, IFPMA invites key opinion leaders to advance thinking and ideas on key issues that can drive efforts to allow the “miracle” of life-saving vaccines to reach all.
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50 Years of Global Health Progress Report
This report traces global health progress over the past 50 years. It reviews some of the research-based biopharmaceutical industry’s major scientific advances, as well as acknowledging challenges the industry faces and areas of unfinished business.
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New IFPMA Code of Practice 2019
New IFPMA Code of Practice will enter into force on 1st January 2019
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The Complex Journey of a Vaccine
The development of novel vaccines is a long endeavor. It takes usually between 10 to 15 years to develop a novel vaccine, as well as establishing its quality, safety and efficacy.
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IFPMA represents the research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations across the globe. The research-based pharmaceutical industry’s 2 million employees research, develop and provide medicines and vaccines that improve the life of patients worldwide. Based in Geneva, IFPMA has official relations with the United Nations and contributes industry expertise to help the global health community find solutions that improve global health.
Tackling Global health challenges
The research-based biopharmaceutical industry is proud to be playing its part in the quest to find effective and sustainable solutions to today’s most pressing health concerns.
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Boosting Innovation and Access
The research-based biopharmaceutical industry is thinking creatively about its innovation and business models to meet new challenges, and is working in collaboration with different players from the scientific community.
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Strengthening Regulatory Systems
Patients everywhere should be treated with high quality medicines and vaccines. Science-based guidelines provide direction for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines.
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Building trust
The healthcare community and the public must be confident that research-based biopharmaceutical industry and their employees, wherever they operate, communicate and act in an ethical and professional manner.
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Discovering medicines and Vaccines
Never have people lived longer and never have so many children been saved from dying in the first years of life. Medicines and vaccines extend and improve the quality of life for many people.
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Global Health Progress – Collaborating for a sustainable future
Global Health Progress is a new knowledge hub highlighting over 200 collaborations between the innovative biopharmaceutical industry and more than 850 partners to support the SDGs. Users can explore collaborations by SDG target, disease area, program strategy, and more. Users are also encouraged to connect with partners via the platform...
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IFPMA & IFPW Supply chain session 2016 Global Health Forum - long version
The session that took place at 2016 GHF ‘Shaping a sound supply chain ecosystem’ gathered speakers from BMS, IFPW Walgreens Boots Alliance, ICRC and WHO. Moderated by Scrip’s Sukaina Virji. To find out more about the complexities of the pharmaceutical supply chain, to hear what experts think are the essential...
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IFPMA Welcomes Set-Up of New African Medicines Agency
Geneva, 25 May 2018 – To mark Africa Day, soon after African health ministers of 55-country African Union, all gathered at the 71st World Health Assembly, unanimously adopted a treaty to establish the African Medicines Agency, IFPMA seizes this momentum to welcome this important milestone. The new African Medicines Agency...
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Greg Perry - IFPMA Moderated Panels @Pre-ICDRA 2018
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IFPMA Statement at WHA72 12.1 agenda item Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework for the sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits
Seasonal influenza virus sharing is already being negatively impacted by national implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in some countries. Several instances have been reported by the WHO Collaborating Centers where countries have delayed, or stopped altogether, the sharing of seasonal influenza virus samples on the grounds of conflict with local...
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Our membership has three levels tailored to meet specific needs. Full Members have to be R&D-based pharmaceutical companies or national associations whose membership includes innovative pharmaceutical companies; Associate Members of R&D-based pharmaceutical companies and national associations whose permanent staff numbers are less than five, and Affiliate Members that are organizations, associations, companies and institutions who are supportive of the R&D-based
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Five Questions to .... Dr. Lembit Rägo
This year IFPMA is hosting its 10th Asia Regulatory Conference (ARC2020) in Kuala Lumpur. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) is represented in the conference Advisory Board by Dr Lembit Rägo, its Secretary General. IFPMA sat down with Dr Rägo to discuss CIOMS’s activities, future of the biopharmaceutical industry and the future role of ARC. CIOMS's mission is to advance public health...
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Promoting Regulatory Collaboration and Convergence in Asia
This article was originally published in Pharma Focus Asia in December 2019. Regulatory reliance is increasingly being used by National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) with different regulatory systems and is actively promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a mechanism to better manage resource capacity issues and strengthen regulatory systems. NRAs in Asia remain key in spearheading efforts and offer opportunities for all stakeholders. In...
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Five Questions to .... Andréa Vassalotti
On the occasion of Fight the Fakes Week 2019, we talked to Andrea Vassalotti, Director of Partnerships and Programmes at the World Heart Federation (WHF), about the importance of recognizing the issue of substandard and falsified medicines as a public health threat, and the efforts that must be made to address the problem effectively. Why is it important for those in the cardiovascular disease field...
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