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Biopharmaceutical industry comes through in dealing with Ebola

Brendan Shaw

Sep 1, 20194 min read

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...

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History Repeats with the Release of the 2019 WHO Essential Medicines List

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...

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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...

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Five generations in the workplace: a moment in history

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...

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UHC and medicine price transparency feature at 2019 World Health Assembly

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...

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How do we turn the tide?: Winning the measles vaccination debate

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...

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The WHO’s Essential Medicines List: Changing the Conversation

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...

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The NHS 10-year plan: more artificial intelligence, less pigeon resuscitation

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...

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Targets, takeovers and Tomb Raiders: things to watch in 2019 global health policy

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...

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Universal health coverage and health technology assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa

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...

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Doing it for Jane: eradicating tuberculosis

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...

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Access Accelerated: NCDs and the pharmaceutical industry’s coming of age

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” - ...

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Can we handle a cure?: the politics and economics of hepatitis C treatment

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...

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The NHS – what lessons from a 70-year-old system of universal health coverage?

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...

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To price or not to price, that is the question

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...

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Don't forget the future: Alzheimer's disease and the economics of drug development

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...

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World Health Assembly: a change in the air?

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...

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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. - ...

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Universal health coverage needs a new political campaign

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...

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Disruptive innovation in the health sector – are we ready for it?

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...

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