Online Summer School Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies 2022

Event start date/time
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0200
Event end date/time
Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0200
Event location
Online via Zoom
Category
Summer School
Organisers
WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies, Pharmaeconomics Department at the Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH)
Course language
English
Contact (Telephone)
+43 676 848191102 (Nina Zimmermann)
Contact (Email)
whocc@goeg.at
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Online five-day training course in pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies

The WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies, located at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG/Austrian National Public Health Institute) in Vienna is pleased to offer the second online Summer School on Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies.

Addressing a global audience of policy-makers and technical experts in public authorities who work on pricing and reimbursement of medicines, this Summer School offers opportunities to gain insight into up-to-date evidence and policy experience, to discuss practical examples and to interact with experts and peers confronted with similar challenges in promoting Universal Health Coverage and access to medicines. The Summer School also addresses technical experts in public authorities who have not yet worked on pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement.

The Summer School on Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies is dedicated to questions like:
  • How to ensure equitable access to new medicines with high price tags?
  • How to design or to improve the policy of external price referencing?
  • How to encourage the uptake of generic and biosimilar medicines?
  • How can transparency be increased along the pharmaceutical value chain?
Representatives of public authorities worldwide are struggling to find the most appropriate solutions to these challenges. Therefore, our Summer School will address these questions (see our programme).

This online Summer School is in the tradition of the on-site Summer Schools that we have offered in former years (2016, 2017 and 2018). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we organised the 2021 Summer School as a successful virtual event and continue offering this format in 2022.

Learning objectives

  • Understand basic concepts, frameworks and taxonomies such as Universal Health Coverage, access to essential medicines, transparency and the pharmaceutical value chain
  • Learn about the aims and implications of different pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies
  • Learn to prepare, implement and evaluate a medicines policy and understand the differences in the methodological design of a policy 
  • Be provided with a toolbox of policies and gain capacity to adapt policies to changing environments
  • Get to know up-to-date scientific evidence and learn from experiences of other countries

Who should attend?

Program and speakers

Mix of learnings tools

Requirements and commitments 

Application

Fees and cancellation policy

About the organisers

Availability of places and deadlines

Limited number of places available: The Summer School accepts 30 participants.

Deadline for application: 31 May 2022. Early application is highly recommended.

Use the application form here.