Cadila Pharmaceuticals in association with Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) is organizing a webinar on " Pharmacoeconomics in Drug development and medicine accessibility" for 2 hours starting 5.30 pm IST on 18th October, 2020

Dr V K Somani, DCGI has kindly agreed to be the Chief Guest for this Pharmacoeconomics and medicine accessibility webinar. 

This webinar will feature National faculties and world renowned Pharmacoeconomics expert Professor Marcin Czech, former Deputy Minister of Health, Government of Poland.

The objective of the webinar is to discuss the importance of Pharmacoeconomics in drug development and medication accessibility in developing countries like India.

Following is the agenda :

1. Welcome address by Chief Guest: Dr V K Somani, DCGI : 10 mins

2. Address by President/ Leadership team representative from Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) about ISCR training activities in India : 10 mins

2. Introduction to Pharmacoeconmics : Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick , Clinical Director, Peerless Hospital, Kolkata: 20 mins

3. Role of Pharmacoeconomics in Innovative Drug development: Dr Bakulesh Khamar Director & Head of Research  &  Mr Amogh Dev Rai : Executive Director at Sanrachna  SGT University : 20 mins

4. Pharmacoeconomics as a tool to enable medicine accessibility: Prof Marcin Czech, Head of the dept of Pharmacoeconomics, Institute of Mother and child, Warsaw and ex-Deputy Minister of Health, Government of Poland : 30 mins

5. Question and Answers: 20 mins

According to Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, Convener of this webinar “Pharmacoeconomic evaluation is an important tool during drug development and medication accessibility in developing countries like India and this webinar emphasizes on it. Insights from Prof Czech, who has been practicing implementation of pharmacoeconomic tools in drug pricing and accessibility in Poland will help us design similar strategies for our country.”

“It is a very timely and insightful webinar. Expecting collaboration from more pharmaceutical companies and CROs to organize such webinars related to clinical research and drug development in near future”, said Snehendu Konar, one of the senior executive from organizing committee.