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WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 2025 Update: New Tech, Emerging Issues & 50th Anniversary
Brendan Shaw Article written in PharmaBoardroom published on 11 September 2025, which can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/arti...
Brendan Shaw
Sep 111 min read


Never Waste a Good Crisis: Reflections on the 2025 World Health Assembly
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 3 June 2025 can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/never-waste-a-go...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 31 min read


The 2023 WHO Essential Medicines List & The Importance of Industry Engagement
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 8 August 2023 can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/the-2023-who-esse...
Brendan Shaw
Aug 8, 20231 min read


Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On
Brendan Shaw Article "Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On" published in PharmaBoardroom on 18 July 2023 can...
Brendan Shaw
Jul 18, 20231 min read


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
May 7, 20235 min read


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
Sep 1, 20194 min read


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
Aug 3, 20191 min read


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 and Siddhartha Prakash
May 30, 20196 min read


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
Apr 9, 20195 min read


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
Mar 31, 20191 min read


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
Sep 21, 20185 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...
Brendan Shaw
May 25, 20183 min read
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