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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
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The Best & the Worst? Five Trends for Pharma to Watch in 2025
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom, 9 January 2025, found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/the-best-the-worst-five...
Brendan Shaw
Jan 91 min read
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Medicines Australia Strategic Agreement is 'the end of the beginning'
Brendan Shaw Article published on 21 September 2021 in BioPharmaDispatch on the 2021 Strategic Agreement signed between the Australian...
Brendan Shaw
Sep 21, 20211 min read
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More risk for government this time around in agreement negotiation
Brendan Shaw Article published in BioPharmaDispatch 9 April 2021 on the risks for government and industry in negotiations on a new...
Brendan Shaw
Apr 8, 20211 min read
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COVID-19 vaccination a 12-month success for science, governments and industry
Brendan Shaw The news just in that the United Kingdom has formally approved the roll out of mass vaccinations for COVID-19 from next week...
Brendan Shaw
Dec 3, 20204 min read
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Space X and NASA: lessons on public-private R&D for the health debate
Brendan Shaw On 30 May, the Space X Dragon rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and delivered two NASA astronauts...
Brendan Shaw
May 31, 20203 min read
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New industrial policy for biopharmaceutical and devices industry needs careful thought
Article published in BioPharmaDispatch on 17 April 2020 about the debate in Australia on expanding national manufacturing capacity in...
Brendan Shaw
Apr 17, 20201 min read
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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...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 20, 20195 min read
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Crouching dragons and hidden tigers: the emergence of China’s life sciences sector
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius China’s life sciences industry is still...
Brendan Shaw
Nov 16, 20185 min read
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My failure as a Rockstar: lessons from technological change in the music industry
In 2001, a little-known rock band started and ended its career in Melbourne, Australia. The band, Boxer, a folk-rock/pop band with a...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 20, 20184 min read
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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...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 3, 20185 min read
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To price or not to price, that is the question
What price to put on a medicine is one of the big issues in global health right now. While there are times when the debate around drug...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 28, 20185 min read
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