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Tuesday, June 21 • 1:45pm - 2:45pm
#241: Drug Safety in Africa: New PV Horizons

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Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-22-564-L04-P ; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

MHRA will introduce colleagues from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA Nepad) and the Nigerian regulator on a project to build capacity on pharmacovigilance in the region. Work so far has focussed on COVID-19 vaccines where data collection and signal detection and assessment to provide a platform for expansion to other products

Learning Objectives

Describe the progress in pharmacovigilance in the African Union and future plans

Chair

Mick Foy

Speaker

A Funder's Perspective on Building LMIC PV Systems: AU-3S Case Example
Shyam Bhaskaran, PhD, MBA, MS

Country Perspective from Nigeria
Moji Christianah Adeyeye, MPharm, RPh

Introducing the AU Smart Safety Surveillance (AU-3S)
Aggrey Ambali


Speakers
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Aggrey Ambali

Director, AUDA-NEPAD Agency, South Africa
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Shyam Bhaskaran

Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United States
Shyam Bhaskaran leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Smart Safety Surveillance (3S) strategy - building functional pharmacovigilance systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to ensure patient safety as new global health products are launched. His recent focus has... Read More →
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Mick Foy

Deputy Director of Patient Safety Monitoring, MHRA, United Kingdom
Mick Foy has been with the MHRA for more than 30 years, he is a member of the MHRA’s Senior Leadership team and has recently been appointed Deputy Director of Patient Safety Monitoring . Amongst his responsibilities is to lead MHRA efforts to build PV capabilities in other countries... Read More →

Tuesday June 21, 2022 1:45pm - 2:45pm CDT
Room 178 McCormick Place 2301 South Indiana Avenue Gate 40 Chicago, IL 60616
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session