Tagged with Sustainability

Europe PharmaBoardroom was delighted to attend DIA Europe 2024 in Brussels earlier this month, bringing together a veritable who’s-who of the European and global regulatory community. The politicians, regulators, payers, patient advocates, industry representatives, and service providers in attendance were treated to a three-day buffet of engaging panels and townhalls with…

UAE Drawing on a quarter of a century of pharmaceutical industry experience, over 20 years of which has been spent in the UAE, Ayman Mokhtar today heads up Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia operations for Viatris. A global healthcare company with a broad range of products, Viatris is continually working…

Sweden Anders Blanck, CEO of LIF, the industry organisation for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden, describes the Sustainability Strategy that the pharma industry in Sweden is now launching. Central to the Strategy is a Manifesto with nine commitments that covers the entire value chain of medicines – from research and…

Global 2021 saw PharmaBoardroom’s network of executives and experts weighing in on some of the most pressing issues facing our industry today. See below for five of the most thought-provoking pieces, ranging from patient engagement to access solutions, infrastructure building, biomarkers, and sustainability.   A ‘Bold Vision’ of Patient Engagement The…

Global The research evidence is unequivocal, public, planetary and economic health are inextricably linked and no continent, country or community is immune from the impacts of climate change. The race to net zero is also a race to a healthier, cleaner and more resilient future. Giles Dean, Sustainability Manager at Deloitte…

Collaboration With sustainable development goals in mind, the global umbrella pharmaceutical association IFPMA has recently launched a platform that fosters collaboration with the aim of tackling problems related to health and equality through partnerships between biopharma companies, governments, academia and other local institutions.    Effective partnerships will help our innovations to…

Brazil Maria del Pilar Muñoz, vice-president in charge of M&A and Sustainability at Eurofarma, one of the largest and most innovative pharmaceutical companies in Brazil with operations in 20 countries across Latin Americ , provides insights into the key competitive advantages of Eurofarma, its unique internationalization strategy, and the company’s historical…

Colombia Alejandro Gaviria Uribe, Colombia’s minister of health and social protection, discusses the implementation of the Statutory Health Law, bridging the gap between healthcare coverage and access to healthcare, and the strategic priorities of the Ministry moving forward. In our 2013 interview, your overarching sentiment was that the healthcare landscape was…

Colombia Héctor Castro, director of Medicines and Health Technologies at the Colombian Ministry of Health since 2016, explains how the regulations and quality standards implemented have contributed to make Colombia’s healthcare system one of the best in Latin America. You were appointed director of Medicines and Health Technologies at the Ministry…

Pharma In an exclusive interview at the eyeforpharma Barcelona Summit 2016, Janssen EMEA’s Jane Griffiths speaks out about patient-centricity, sustainability and the dawning of a new world of healthcare. What’s been keeping you most busy in recent months? We have, for the third consecutive year, topped IDEA Pharma’s Productive Innovation Index (PII), which…