Objectives:

Improve the development, management, awareness and uptake of the STGs and EML;
Improve understanding of HTA methodology and changes to the STGs and EML;
Expand the stakeholder database and develop lessons learned to improve communication;
Improve  equitable access and availability of essential medicines; and
Promote the rational use of medicine.

Speakers:

Ms Maropeng Rapetsoa
Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist
Essential Drugs Programme

Professor Marc Blockman
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre  for Medicines Information; Managing Editor: South African Medicines Formulary; Medical Specialist and Professor: Clinical Pharmacology

Dr Andrew Lofts Gray
Senior Lecturer:Division of Pharmacology, UKZN
Consultant Pharmacist: CAPRISA
Visiting Fellow: Rhodes University
Associate Editor: South African Pharmaceutical Journal

Dr Gayle Tatz
Registrar: Clinical Pharmacology

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