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Northwestern University: Claudia Martínez to share insights on public health
In her capacity as Research Programme Manager at the Access to Medicine Foundation, Claudia has been invited to share her insights as an expert discussant at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She will speak with students as part of a course aimed at developing foundational public health knowledge.
Date
21 February 2023
DATE
Tuesday 21 February 2023
FORMAT
Virtual
Claudia will participate as an expert discussant in the course on “Foundations in Public Health”, during which she will share the Foundation’s proven and tested model of incentivising essential healthcare companies to increase access to medicine.
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Read morePart of catalysing this change requires building stakeholder consensus around the role of industry within the global health system, which Claudia will be discussing with students. In particular, she will draw on the recent experience of developing the first-ever framework for evaluating the actions of generic and biosimilar medicine manufacturers in expanding access to medicine, which was published in February 2023 by the Foundation.
Claudia will also discuss the role of partnerships in global health, specifically opportunities for the pharmaceutical industry to work collaboratively with governments, distributors, procurers, and other public health sector partners to expand the reach of medicines in low- and middle-income countries.
