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Is the new price right?: HTA takes a back seat to broader price negotiations
Brendan Shaw I don't always say this but spare a thought for the harried and hapless bureaucrats responsible for managing governments and...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 26, 20247 min read
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This could get messy: Trump’s New ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Executive Order on Medicine Pricing
Brendan Shaw Article published 24 September 2020 in PharmaBoardroom on US President Donald Trump's new Executive Order on Most Favoured...
Brendan Shaw
Sep 23, 20201 min read
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When profit isn’t everything: 46,000 years of cultural history vs the iron ore spot price
Brendan Shaw “Our people are deeply troubled and saddened by the destruction of these rock shelters and are grieving the loss of...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 3, 20205 min read
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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
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Targets, takeovers and Tomb Raiders: things to watch in 2019 global health policy
As if to remind us how intertwined politics, economics and health care are in 2019, the year begins with the second-worst Ebola outbreak...
Brendan Shaw
Jan 4, 20197 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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