PQM Closeout Conference

Workshop Overview

Join the Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program, funded by USAID and implemented by USP, and partners to celebrate achievements at the PQM closeout conference, "Advancing Medical Product Quality Assurance Systems in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries," June 27, 2019 from 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM at Crystal Gateway Marriott just outside of Washington, DC.

The event will share achievements, challenges and lessons learned during the PQM program's ten-year journey to build and strengthen medicine quality assurance systems in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In addition to formal sessions, the event will feature an interactive knowledge fair, enabling participants to engage directly with key implementers of the PQM program. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

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Participants will learn about and discuss:

  • Accomplishments and challenges in strengthening regulatory and quality assurance systems for medicines, and improving surveillance to detect substandard and falsified medicines; 
  • Lessons learned in supporting manufacturers to attain World Health Organization Prequalification for key health products and in diversifying sources of quality-assured essential medicines; 
  • Experiences collaborating with local health authorities in the design of medicines quality assurance system interventions;
  • Emerging priorities for regulatory and quality assurance systems strengthening and pharmaceutical manufacturing to meet global health objectives; and
  • Potential opportunities through private sector engagement and enterprise-driven solutions to facilitate countries' self-reliance in medicines quality assurance.

Featured Sessions

  • PQM: Where We've Come From and What We've Achieved
  • Increasing the Global Supply of Priority Public Health Medicines to Save Lives
  • Strengthening and Building Sustainable, Self-Reliant, Medicine Quality Assurance Systems in LMICs

Featured Speakers, Moderators, and Panel Members

  • Alison Collins, Health Systems Advisor, Office of Health Systems, USAID Bureau for Global Health
  • Deus Mubangizi, Coordinator, Prequalification Team (PQT), Regulation of Medicines and other Health Technologies (RHT), World Health Organization
  • Emily Kaine, Senior Vice President of Global Public Health, USP 
  • Hailu Tadeg, Chief of Party, PQM-Ethiopia 
  • Irvan Maulana, Manufacturing System Development Manager, PT Kalbe Farma (Indonesia)
  • Jude Nwokike, Senior Director, PQM program, USP
  • Kelly Saldana, Director, Office of Health Systems, USAID
  • Lawrence Evans, Director, Country and Core Programs, PQM program, USP
  • Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nigeria)
  • Penny Smith, NTD Advisor, Drug quality, Procurement and Supply Chain Lead, USAID Neglected Tropical Diseases Division
  • Ronald Piervincenzi, Chief Executive Officer, USP
  • Susan Winckler, Board Chair, USP
  • Timothy Nwogu, Principal Program Manager, PQM program, USP 

Knowledge Fair Stations

  • Innovation and Medicines Quality Assurance
  • Medicines Quality and Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Increasing the Supply of Quality-Assured Priority Medicines Globally and Locally
  • Sharing Medicines Quality Information Using the Medicines Quality Database (MQDB)
  • Protecting the Public from Accessing Poor-Quality Medicines
  • Detecting Poor-Quality Medicines: Testing with Compendial Methods
  • Detecting Poor-Quality Medicines: Screening with Portable Devices
  • Detecting Poor-Quality Medicines: Visual Inspection
  • Designing Risk-Based Sampling for Post-Marketing Surveillance Programs

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