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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
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Costs and benefits: how has the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme contributed to Australia over the last quarter century?
Brendan Shaw How much value for money does Australia get from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme? Following on from an earlier blog ...
Brendan Shaw
Mar 258 min read
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Recognising rebates: the role of pharmaceutical companies in funding UK and Australian pharmaceutical schemes
Brendan Shaw and Vinh Vo The United Kingdom and Australia have a long tradition of mostly friendly rivalry over things like cricket and...
Brendan Shaw
Feb 257 min read
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Raising the Bar: How the 2024 Access to Medicine Index Shapes the Pharmaceutical Industry’s ESG Agenda
Unjela Kaleem Globally, the pharmaceutical industry has a crucial role, sitting at the nexus of innovation, ethics, and public health. As...
Brendan Shaw
Dec 2, 20244 min read
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Short Memories: Has Health Fallen Off the Global Agenda? What Does it Mean for Pharma?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 26 June 2024 can be found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/short-memories-ha...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 27, 20241 min read
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Time to Build More Windmills: Reflections from the ChinaBio Innovation & Investment Conference 2023
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 19 October 2023 that can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/time-to-bu...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 21, 20231 min read
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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-...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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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...
Brendan Shaw
Dec 8, 20211 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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Opportunities for the Life Science Industry in Australia post-COVID
Brendan Shaw Article published 24 May 2021 on opportunities for Australia's life science sector in a post-COVID world can be found here....
Brendan Shaw
May 24, 20211 min read
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Ethics own goal in opioid epidemic: the role of consultants
Brendan Shaw Reading the news that global consulting firm, McKinsey, has just settled law suits with US states for almost US$ 574 million...
Brendan Shaw
Feb 25, 20214 min read
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5 Trends for Life Science Companies to Watch in 2021
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 14 January 2021 can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/5-trends-for...
Brendan Shaw
Jan 14, 20211 min read
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