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Tuesday, June 18 • 8:00am - 9:00am
#202: Behavioral and Educational Strategies for Avoiding Falsified Medicine Exposure (BE SAFE)

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Component Type: Forum
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-557-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

Counterfeit drugs are important public health concern that impact both developed and LMICs. The session is to understand the current landscape and global impact of these and hear from industry, regulators and others on best approaches to address this

Learning Objectives

Discuss the significance and current landscape of counterfeit (falsified) medicines; Describe the economic, socio-economic and pervasive health threats to the global population from counterfeit products; Identify the current interventions implemented by regulators, industry, policy makers to combat this; Recognize new approaches to develop more focused programs that address the root cause.

Chair

Lubna Merchant, PharmD, MS

Speaker

Academic Update
Saifuddin Ahmed, MD, PhD

WHO Update
Rutendo Kuwana, RPh

FDA Update
Sangeeta Chatterjee

Patient Perspective
Regina Mariam Kamoga, MPA



Speakers
avatar for Lubna Merchant

Lubna Merchant

Director, Risk Management Center of Excellence, Pfizer Inc , United States
Lubna is a Director in the Risk Management Center of Excellence at Pfizer, Inc., where she is responsible for the strategy and implementation of risk management plans globally. Dr. Merchant provides global leadership in delivering innovative and strategic risk management excellence... Read More →
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Saifuddin Ahmed

Professor, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, United States
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Sangeeta Chatterjee

Deputy Office Director, Office of Drug Security, Integrity, Response, OC, CDER, FDA, United States
avatar for Regina Mariam Kamoga

Regina Mariam Kamoga

Executive Director, Community Health And Information Network ( CHAIN), Uganda
She is passionate about patient centered healthcare and patient safety and her work puts emphasis on patient, family, community engagement and empowerment at the grassroots level. One of her key roles is as a WHO Patient Safety champion and she is a member of the WHO’s Patients... Read More →
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Rutendo Kuwana

Team Lead, Incidents and Substandard/Falsified Medical Products, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Rutendo is leading the Incidents and Substandard/Falsified (ISF) medical products team at the World Health Organization (WHO) since June 2021. The ISF team is part of the Regulation and Safety (REG) Unit of the Regulation and Prequalification (RPQ) department that is within the Access... Read More →


Tuesday June 18, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 6A San Diego Convention Center 111 W Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum
  • Format Forum
  • Level Basic
  • Level Basic
  • Credit Type ACPE, CME, RN
  • Tags Forum