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Drug Policy Issues Course
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The Drug Policy Issues (DPI) course is a longstanding course at BUSPH, offered both as a semester-long course and, in collaboration
with WHO and others, as a 2-week regional short course. The regional short course was delivered in the Dominican Republic in 2005
in conjunction with WHO/PAHO. Drs. Brenda Waning, Warren Kaplan, Jorge Bermudez, and Richard Laing served as the course coordinators
and presenters. The BUSPH semester course has evolved into a global drug policy issues course that now addresses both developed
and developing country issues. The DPI course examines national drug policies, selection issues, financing (including health
insurance systems and mega global initiatives), public-private relationships, approaches to improving drug use, human resource
shortages, medicine donations, medicine prices, medicine quality, medicine safety/post-marketing surveillance, program and policy
evaluation, and many other issues. The DPI course, a cornerstone of the new BU-PAMP program, provides students with case-based
approaches to medicines issues involving international and local experts to present pharmaceutical policy issues and potential
solutions.
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LATEST UPDATES
MedIC
Initiative Courses conducted in Accra, Ghana
, November 16-25, 2008 and in Beijing, China, March 22-31, 2009
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