King’s College London Fight the Fakes will host a webinar about the response to substandard and falsified (SF) medical products in francophone Sub-Saharan African countries with Raffaella Ravinetto, PharmD, PhD, Head of the Public Health Department, and a professor in pharmaceutical public health, at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium.
Time & Location
25 Apr 2024, 12:00 – 13:00
About the Event
The next speaker in King’s College London Fight the Fakes series is Prof. Raffaella Ravinetto, PharmD, PhD, Head of the Public Health Department, and a professor in pharmaceutical public health, at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium.
About the Speaker
Raffaella Ravinetto, PharmD, PhD, has a thirty-year experience in commercial and non-commercial clinical research, humanitarian programmes, pharmaceutical policies, and research ethics review. She is the Head of the Public Health Department, and a professor in pharmaceutical public health, at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium. She is also the chairperson of the ITM Institutional Review Board; the chairperson of the MSF Ethics Review Board; an extraordinary professor at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa; and a senior editor of the BMC Medical Ethics. Her main areas of interest include pharmaceutical policies and equitable access to quality-assured health products, with a particular focus on the context of low- and middle-income countries; and research ethics, particularly in relation to resource-constrained settings and vulnerable populations. She was the president of MSF Italy from 2007 to 2011.
About the Talk
Assuring the quality of medical products manufactured, imported or distributed in francophone sub-Saharan Africa remains a challenge, despite positive signals like the growing engagement in the benchmarking of regulatory authorities and -particularly- in the establishment of the African Medicines Agency. In this short report, we describe the existing activities to prevent, detect and respond to substandard and falsified products (SF) in this region, either through African multilateral organizations and initiatives led by the World Health Organization, or through the contribution of other stakeholders, such as local universities and procurement agencies. We underline that these emerging local stakeholders may play a pivotal role to guide and inform the national regulatory authorities about the prevalence and patterns of SF medical products, complementing the market surveillance and control, and building awareness of the importance of pharmaceutical quality assurance for public health. Find out more here.
Agenda
- 12:00 PM – 12:05 PM Introductions and Housekeeping
- 12:05 PM – 12:35 PM Guest Talk
- 12:35 PM – 12:55 PM Interactive Q&A
- 12:55 PM – 1:00 PM Thanks and Close
Webinar link will be sent to participants before the event.
