Asia ConsortiumRegional chapter in Asia

ISPOR-ISPOR-INDIAINDIA Chapter ChapterJawahar 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: Harish Narula, Chairman, Bharat Shakti, Spiritual, Cultural & Educational Society (NGO),New Delhi,

Vice President:Shashidhar Rao, MBA, MD, MBBSHead, Medical Research Specialists, Medical and Research Medical and Research Division, Novartis Ltd., Hyderabad

Vice President:Suresh K. Gupta, PhD, MScDirector General & Dean Institute of Clinical Research IndiaNew Delhi

• Secretary: Jawahar S. Bapna PhD, MD, MBBSAdjunct Professor, Pharmaceutical Management Institute of Health Management Research Jaipur

Participation of Members in ISPOR Meetings Aborad

• 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

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

Dec 8&9

National Conference on Health Management Research, at Jaipur on ‘Globalization & Health Care: Are we Prepared?

2009

2010

Dec10

Nov 26-27

Followup of Pharmacovigilance implementation with the Govt agenciesISPOR–India Annual meeting, Symposium on Outcomes Research along with Pradanya at IIHMR, Jaipur

Important Annual Activities of ISPOR INDIA

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 overviewRumjhum 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 IndiaDr 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– 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Singh, Jatinder. ‘ Web-wise’ on International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. Indian J Pharmacol. 38: 376-77, 2006