Monday, 27 July 2020
- Basic elements
- Pharmaceutical policies as a part of health systems and in the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
- Specificities of the pharmaceutical sector
- Reimbursement policies
- Introduction to case study activities
Evening: City tour ‚Vienna at a glance‘ & Get together
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
- Medicine pricing policies
- Why regulating prices?
- Different pricing policies for different medicines (e.g. high-cost medicines, generics/biosimilars)
- How to compare medicines prices across countries?
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
- Access to medicines: challenges and solutions
- Current challenges in access to medicines
- How can such challenges be overcome? Experiences from countries (e.g. procurement and supply chain management, Health Technology Assessment, international collaboration, transparency etc.)
- Public event with high-level European and Austrian experts and stakeholder representatives
Evening: Reception after public event
Thursday, 30 July 2020
- Intellectual Property Rights and off-patent medicines policies
- All you need to know about medicine patents
- Strategies to foster generics and biosimilars uptake
- Role of Horizon Scanning
- Study visits to public pricing and reimbursement authorities and further relevant institutions in Vienn
Evening: Social Dinner
Friday, 31 July 2020
- Poster presentations by participants on national pharmaceutical systems
- Pharmaceutical strategies and reflections, concepts of fair pricing
- Follow-up on study visits and presentation of case study findings
- Conclusions and lessons learnt