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Brendan Shaw
Sep 20, 20241 min read
Could Human HTA Committees be Replaced with AI Systems?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 18 September 2024 which can be found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/could-hum...
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Brendan Shaw
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Universal Health Coverage at the Half-Way Point: Political Disappointment & Business Opportunity
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 9 October 2023 which can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/universal-...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 4, 20239 min read
Land of the Long Wait Crowd: problems in New Zealand's medicine funding system
Brendan Shaw "It is so important that New Zealanders are able to access new, emerging and effective cancer treatments that are the...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 8, 20211 min read
The Global Pandemic Agreement: Time to Get Serious
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on discussions on a new global pandemic agreement at the World Health Assembly...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Australians now understand there is a 'queue' for new health technologies
Podcast interview of Brendan Shaw with Paul Cross from BioPharmaDispatch, 8 December 2021 that can be heard here. The interview discusses...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 20, 20195 min read
HTA 2.0: time for a reboot
A few days spent at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 conference in Cologne this week gave a sense of how the...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 10, 20194 min read
The NHS 10-year plan: more artificial intelligence, less pigeon resuscitation
This week the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced the new 10-year plan for the National Health Service, with the claim that it...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 4, 20197 min read
Targets, takeovers and Tomb Raiders: things to watch in 2019 global health policy
As if to remind us how intertwined politics, economics and health care are in 2019, the year begins with the second-worst Ebola outbreak...
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Brendan Shaw
Oct 3, 20185 min read
Universal health coverage and health technology assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa
" Africa's progress, if it is noticed at all, is seen as an improbable stroke of good fortune, a temporary break from its impoverished...
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Brendan Shaw
Jul 12, 20185 min read
The NHS – what lessons from a 70-year-old system of universal health coverage?
“Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their...
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Brendan Shaw
May 25, 20183 min read
World Health Assembly: a change in the air?
As delegates gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva this week for the 71st World Health Assembly I became increasingly convinced...
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Brendan Shaw
Apr 7, 20185 min read
Universal health coverage needs a new political campaign
In a recent poll Britons were asked what historical event in British history makes them feel proud. Believe it or not, the creation of...
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