Biopharmaceutical industry comes through in dealing with Ebola
Recent news that two new drugs to treat the Ebola virus developed by the biopharmaceutical industry have achieved a 90% cure rate is...
top of page
Our Blog
See below for an opinion on current matters around the world.
Search
Brendan Shaw
Aug 3, 20191 min read
History Repeats with the Release of the 2019 WHO Essential Medicines List
Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 2 August 2019. The article can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/history-repeat...
13 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jun 20, 20195 min read
HTA 2.0: time for a reboot
A few days spent at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 conference in Cologne this week gave a sense of how the...
202 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jun 7, 20196 min read
Five generations in the workplace: a moment in history
For the first time ever in human history there are now five generations working together in the same workplace. While some...
2,271 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw and Siddhartha Prakash
May 30, 20196 min read
UHC and medicine price transparency feature at 2019 World Health Assembly
The 2019 World Health Assembly in Geneva, the 72nd such meeting, as always covered many important health issues from around the world. A...
77 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Apr 9, 20195 min read
How do we turn the tide?: Winning the measles vaccination debate
“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the...
69 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Mar 31, 20191 min read
The WHO’s Essential Medicines List: Changing the Conversation
Article published in Pharma Boardroom on how a new approach to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List is needed to ensure both the patients...
11 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jan 10, 20194 min read
The NHS 10-year plan: more artificial intelligence, less pigeon resuscitation
This week the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced the new 10-year plan for the National Health Service, with the claim that it...
43 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jan 4, 20197 min read
Targets, takeovers and Tomb Raiders: things to watch in 2019 global health policy
As if to remind us how intertwined politics, economics and health care are in 2019, the year begins with the second-worst Ebola outbreak...
68 views1 comment
Brendan Shaw
Oct 3, 20185 min read
Universal health coverage and health technology assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa
" Africa's progress, if it is noticed at all, is seen as an improbable stroke of good fortune, a temporary break from its impoverished...
43 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Sep 24, 20184 min read
Doing it for Jane: eradicating tuberculosis
Sometimes in discussions of global health we get lost in the numbers. It's something I am often guilty of myself. Individual stories of...
40 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Sep 21, 20185 min read
Access Accelerated: NCDs and the pharmaceutical industry’s coming of age
“Premature death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continues to be one of the major development challenges in the 21st century” - ...
66 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jul 27, 20185 min read
Can we handle a cure?: the politics and economics of hepatitis C treatment
When the first of the new hepatitis C medicines, the direct acting antivirals (DAAs), entered the market about five years ago they became...
62 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jul 12, 20185 min read
The NHS – what lessons from a 70-year-old system of universal health coverage?
“Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their...
42 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Jun 28, 20185 min read
To price or not to price, that is the question
What price to put on a medicine is one of the big issues in global health right now. While there are times when the debate around drug...
45 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
May 31, 20185 min read
Don't forget the future: Alzheimer's disease and the economics of drug development
The story of the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is a classic example of why a commercially...
111 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
May 25, 20183 min read
World Health Assembly: a change in the air?
As delegates gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva this week for the 71st World Health Assembly I became increasingly convinced...
50 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Apr 26, 20185 min read
Anti-vaxxers should read Roald Dahl
“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. - ...
63 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Apr 7, 20185 min read
Universal health coverage needs a new political campaign
In a recent poll Britons were asked what historical event in British history makes them feel proud. Believe it or not, the creation of...
31 views0 comments
Brendan Shaw
Mar 22, 20186 min read
Disruptive innovation in the health sector – are we ready for it?
“Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not...
219 views0 comments
bottom of page