Brendan Shaw The Australian Academy of Science Building (the 'Shine Dome'), Canberra, Australia. Source: Wikimedia Commons . “ It...

Brendan Shaw “We are on the front lines.” -            St Vincent and Grenadine’s Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, July 2024 .   “Part of...

Brendan Shaw Article published in Biopharmadispatch, 28 August 2023, (paywall) which can be found here. #medicines #ageing #economics...

Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 8 August 2023 can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/the-2023-who-esse...

Ambrish Singh & Brendan Shaw "The Indian pharmaceutical industry has been a key aspect for the Indian economy." - Indian Prime Minister,...

Brendan Shaw and Sunayana Shah With the Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union at an impasse and rising...

Article published in BioPharmaDispatch on 17 April 2020 about the debate in Australia on expanding national manufacturing capacity in...

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills" - Chinese proverb There’s been a lot said about the...

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

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

Article published with Associate Professor Orin Chisholm from the University of New South Wales on 22 July 2019 in the Medical Journal of...

A few days spent at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 conference in Cologne this week gave a sense of how the...

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

Deciding if, how and when to engage in an election campaign for an industry association like Medicines Australia probably is more art...

News that a joint research project by pharmaceutical companies Biogen and Eisai to develop a new drug to treat Alzheimer's Disease has...

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

" Africa's progress, if it is noticed at all, is seen as an improbable stroke of good fortune, a temporary break from its impoverished...

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

When the first of the new hepatitis C medicines, the direct acting antivirals (DAAs), entered the market about five years ago they became...

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...