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SUMMARY:Access to Medicines - PANEL
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CONTACT:Goylette Chami
DESCRIPTION:Access to Medicines Panel: Feb 8th\, 5-7 PM\n\nLocation: Keyne
 s Hall\, King’s College Cambridge\nRegistration: https://globalhealthacc
 esstomedicines.eventbrite.com \n\nThis panel discussion brings together ke
 y individuals influencing the global access to medicines. As the 2nd event
  in our King’s College Global Health Seminars\, we focus on the access t
 o medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs comprise a set of
  20 diseases afflicting more than 1.9 billion people worldwide. These indi
 viduals are the poorest of the poor and mostly reside in areas of low-inco
 me countries that lack safe water and adequate sanitation. The donation of
  drugs for NTDs is one of the largest drug donation programmes\, which par
 tners governments from low-income countries\, the World Health Organizatio
 n\, and the pharmaceutical industry. \n\nPANELISTS\nProf. Peter Hotez – 
 Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of
  Medicine\, USA\; Professor of Tropical Pediatrics\nhttps://peterhotez.org
 \n\nMr. Andy Wright – Vice President of Global Health and Access Program
 mes at GlaxoSmithKline\nhttps://www.gsk.com/en-gb/behind-the-science/acces
 s-to-healthcare/ \n\nDr. Jutta Reinhard-Rupp – Head of Merck Global Heal
 th Institute\nhttps://www.merckgroup.com/en/company/responsibility/our-str
 ategy/health/mghi.html \n\nMr. Julien Potet – Médecins Sans Frontières
  (MSF) Policy advisor for NTDs & vaccines in MSF’s Access to Medicine Ca
 mpaign\nhttps://www.msfaccess.org \n\nSome topics to be covered:\n•	Impl
 ications of vertical drug programmes\n•	Role of pharmaceutical companies
  in NTD control/elimination\n•	Expansion of preventive chemotherapy dist
 ribution vs. investment in the development of new vaccines and medicines\n
 \nA King’s College collaboration with the Wellcome Trust – Cambridge C
 entre for Global Health Research\, Department of Pathology\, and Cambridge
 -Africa Programme\n
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College Cambridge
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