WHO/UNICEF Technical Briefing Seminar
on Essential Medicines Policies,
16-20 Nov 2009,
World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva
THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
Facilitation: Dr Kathleen Holloway, EMP/MAR
Medicine supply systems strengthening
09:00-10:00
Panel presentation and discussion access framework and medicines supply
WHO/EMP- Dr Magali Babaley
GDF/TB - Mr Thomas Moore
UNICEF - Mr Henrik Nielsen
HTM/HIV - Mr Boniface Dongmo Nguimfack
GMP/SCM - Ms Sylvia Schwarte
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:30
Discussion
11:30-12:30
Access to controlled medicines
Dr Willem Scholten
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Lunch time seminar:
Essential medicines training - new initiatives in the South Pacific for health care worker training
Mr Andrew Brown, University of Canberra
Chair- Dr Richard Laing, (EMP/MIE)
Facilitation: Dr Dele Olawale Abegunde, EMP/MAR
14:00-15:30
Pharmacy workforce situation analysis:
Ghana and Nigeria
Mrs Helen Tata EMP/MPC
Mr Daniel Amaning Ghana
Mrs Bridget Okala Nigeria
15:30-15:45 Tea
Hot topics
15:45-17:30
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)
Dr Saul Walker, DFID
Corruption and Good Governance for Medicines
Dr Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti, EMP/MAR and Mr Mohamed Ramzy Ismail, EMRO
Challenges in medicines supply systems: country case studies
Mrs Helen Tata/ Dr Magali Babaley, EMP/MAR