Women in Innovation
9 March 2020 - 12:00 - 15:00 Campus Biotech, Geneva I This International Women’s Day, women from diverse sectors, different countries and with distinct innovation models, will come together throughout the world to share their journey and how they are working to provide real life solutions
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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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Health for All in Africa - Our collaborations supporting the SDGs
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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 and WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum
IFPMA and WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum IFPMA as the body representing the innovator biopharmaceutical industry in official relations with the UN, together with a number of its member companies were invited to the WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum on COVID-19 which took place on 11 and 12...
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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 .... Judy Stenmark
At WHO’s February Executive Board, The Global Self-Care Federation was among the UHC2030 Private Sector players to submit a statement. The statement calls for governments and other stakeholders to create an enabling environment for effective and structured private sector engagement, to accelerate progress on universal health coverage (UHC). Judy Stenmark, Director General of The Global Self-Care Federation, explains how the importance and effectiveness of self-care interventions...
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Over 30 Antiviral Drugs Being Tested Against Against Novel Coronavirus – As WHO Convenes Global Innovation Forum
This article was originally published on Health Policy Watch on February 10, 2020. “We all have a vested interest to stop this epidemic,” says Thomas Cueni, Director General of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). As WHO on Tuesday convenes a Global Research & Innovation Forum to rapidly ramp up R&D, Cueni spoke with Health Policy Watch about what he describes as “the extraordinary willingness...
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Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV exposes a flaw in the Nagoya Protocol
This article was originally published in STAT News on February 5, 2020. As the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV increases each day, scientists around the world are racing to find a treatment. Since the virus was first reported from Wuhan, China, at the end of December, and the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern on Jan. 30, commitments to fund...
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