Asia Consortium
Regional chapter in Asia
ISPOR-INDIA Chapter
Jawahar Bapna PhD, MD, MBBS
Adjunct Professor,
Pharmaceutical Management
Institute of Health Management Research
Jaipur
India Chapter - Historical
• Dr. JS Bapna attended ISPOR meeting at
Washinton DC in 1998
• Organized Pharmacoeconomic courses sponsored
by WHO held in 2002 at Delhi/Jaipur
• India Chapter Inception - May, 2006
• Initially 30 Members.
• Now 120 Members
• Inaugural meeting at Delhi
• Executive committee elected
Current leadership of the India
Chapter
• President:
Vice President:
Vice President:
• Secretary:
Harish Narula, Chairman, Bharat
Shakti, Spiritual, Cultural &
Educational Society (NGO),New Delhi,
Shashidhar Rao, MBA, MD, MBBS
Head, Medical Research Specialists,
Medical and Research Medical and
Research Division, Novartis Ltd.,
Hyderabad
Suresh K. Gupta, PhD, MSc
Director General & Dean Institute of
Clinical Research India
New Delhi
Jawahar S. Bapna PhD, MD, MBBS
Adjunct Professor, Pharmaceutical
Management Institute of Health
Management Research Jaipur
Participation of Members in ISPOR
Meetings Aborad
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Dr. Jawahar Bapna, Dr ShashiDhar Rao, China
Dr Anita Kotwani, USA
Dr.Sangeeta Sharma, Canada
Dr. Urmila Thate at Korea
Dr Anita Kotwani, USA, Thailand 2010
Dr ShashiDhar Rao, Thailand 2010
Important Annual Activities of ISPOR INDIA
Yr
Date
Topic
2006 Nov 3
Seminar on ‘Traditional Medicines yesterday and today’ at
Delhi in collaboration with 'Bharat Shakti' Society
2007 Dec 8
Workshop on ‘Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research’, in
collaboration with Pfizer Ltd, at Jaipur
2008 Dec 21
ISPOR–India Annual meeting, Symposium on
Pharmacovigilance
2009
Dec
8&9
National Conference on Health Management Research, at
Jaipur on ‘Globalization & Health Care: Are we Prepared?
Dec10
Followup of Pharmacovigilance implementation with the Govt
agencies
ISPOR–India Annual meeting, Symposium on Outcomes
Research along with Pradanya at IIHMR, Jaipur
2010 Nov
26-27
Activities of 2010
ISPOR–India Annual meeting
Symposium on Outcomes Research
along with Pradanya at IIHMR, Jaipur, Nov 26,
2010
• Health Economics and the Pharmaceutical
Industry: The Fourth Hurdle
Rosemary Jose, PhD, Novartis
• Patient-reported Outcome: An overview
Rumjhum Agrawal, Novartis
Activities of 2010
ISPOR–India Annual meeting
Symposium on Outcomes Research
along with Pradanya at Hotel Mansingh, Jaipur,
Nov 27, 2010
• Introduction to Outcomes Research and Health
Economics, The Why? What? Of Outcomes Research and
Pharmacoeconomic Analyses. Policies in India and
West.
Dr Shalini Menon, Senior Medical Advisor, & Clinical
Development Lead, Pfizer Ltd.
• Methods for economic assessment : examples Impact
on health care Application of Outcomes Research in
Managed Health Care/Health Insurance settings and the
Growing Need in India
Dr Salil Shinde, Senior Medical Advisor, Pfizer Ltd.
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Activities of 2011
• Feb 27 to March 10: International Training Course on
Promoting Rational Drug Use in the Community
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Venue: Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur
Ccoordinator: Jawahar S Bapna
WHO Expert: Dr. Gitanjali Batmanabane
40 Participant from 14 countries participated
Outcome: Participants prepared research projects on Rational Use
of Drugs to be conducted in their own settings
• June 3 ISPOR National Conference, at New Delhi
– Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi
– The 3rd June meeting, in lieu of World Environment Day
(5th June, 2011), Mr. Harish Narula, Chairman of Bharat Shakti
Spiritual , Cultural & Educational Society has initiated to organize
a Seminar to create awareness in Environment and also in Drug
Use and abuse.
Activities planned for 2011
• December - Joint PEOR National meeting
with IIHMR in mid December 2011
• ‘Theme: Pharmacoeconomics and
Pharmacovigilance’
• Explore the possibility of some
resource/representative form ISPOR, USA
at the National Meeting.
Future Plans
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Pharmacovigilance
Ethics in clinical trials
Liaison with drugs control organization
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes
Research activities to be initiated
Future Plans
• Invitation to ISPOR Asia-Pacific
Conference in India 2016
Challenges
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Need to have a office in Delhi for its registration
Need to register it at Delhi
Make more members of it
Have Elections of Executive of the chapter in
2011
Publications
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Tarn YH, Hu S, Kamae I, Yang BM, Li SC, Tangcharoensathien V,
Teerawattananon Y, Limwattananon S, Hameed A, Aljunid SM,
Bapna JS. Health-care systems and pharmacoeconomic research in
Asia-Pacific region. Value Health. 2008 Mar;11 Suppl 1:S137-55.
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Chaudhury RR, Parameswar R, Gupta U, Sharma S, Tekur U,
Bapna JS. Quality medicines for the poor: experience of the Delhi
programme on rational use of drugs. Health Policy Plan. 2005 Mar;
20(2): 124-36.
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Singh, Jatinder. ‘ Web-wise’ on International Society for
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. Indian J Pharmacol.
38: 376-77, 2006