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Brendan Shaw

Unconscious uncoupling?: Three years on Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency

Brendan Shaw " I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...

Brendan Shaw

Biopharmaceutical industry comes through in dealing with Ebola

Recent news that two new drugs to treat the Ebola virus developed by the biopharmaceutical industry have achieved a 90% cure rate is...

Brendan Shaw

History Repeats with the Release of the 2019 WHO Essential Medicines List

Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 2 August 2019. The article can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/history-repeat...

Brendan Shaw and Siddhartha Prakash

UHC and medicine price transparency feature at 2019 World Health Assembly

The 2019 World Health Assembly in Geneva, the 72nd such meeting, as always covered many important health issues from around the world. A...

Brendan Shaw

How do we turn the tide?: Winning the measles vaccination debate

“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the...

Brendan Shaw

The WHO’s Essential Medicines List: Changing the Conversation

Article published in Pharma Boardroom on how a new approach to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List is needed to ensure both the patients...

Brendan Shaw

Access Accelerated: NCDs and the pharmaceutical industry’s coming of age

“Premature death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) continues to be one of the major development challenges in the 21st century” - ...

Brendan Shaw

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...