ISoP Asia Symposium 2013

19-21 March | Singapore

Co-ordinators: Jean-Christophe Delumeau, Kenneth Hartigan-Go and Andrew Bate

Pharmacovigilance Across Borders in Asia.

This 3-day symposium was held in Singapore from 19th to 21st March 2013, in collaboration with the WHO-West-Pacific Regional Office and WHO-Uppsala Monitoring Centre.

In addition to the lectures given by ISoP Executive Committee members and representatives from the WHO-Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the symposium gave representatives from Asian Health Authorities the opportunity to present the status of the pharmacovigilance systems in their countries and to report recent achievements.

The six panel discussions interacting with the audience addressed the impact on safety monitoring taking into account the differing medical practices across South East Asian countries. The challenges faced with improving adverse reaction reporting and the country-specific factors have been addressed as well as when considering the implementation of risk minimisation methods. Interestingly, there was a clear consensus to support efforts to further harmonise safety regulatory requirements as appropriate across Asia particularly within the ASEAN area, and for upgrading national safety databases to reach E2B compatibility.

Based upon the feed-back forms completed by a majority of participants, the Symposium met, and for some even surpassed, the expectations of the audience to the extent that comments were received such as ‘the best pharmacovigilance conference organised in the region so far’.

The combination of academic and country specific presentations and the importance given to panel discussions as well was viewed positively. There is a clear demand for renewing this event in the future, and to extend the participation of pharmacovigilantes even further beyond the 22 countries that participated. This should include for example China and Japan next time. The focus should be on specific topics such as causality assessment, signal detection, audits and inspection, and risk minimisation methods suitable for Asian countries.

ISoP is committed to follow-up on this first ISoP-Asia Symposium.

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Programme

If you would like more details about this course please contact ISoP Administration administration@isoponline.org.

Accommodation

We recommend the following hotel close to the venue and with easy public transport to meeting venue:
Park Avenue Rochester Hotel
31 Rochester Drive
Singapore 138637
Tel: (65) 6808 8600
Fax: (65) 6808 8633

Singapore

Singapore is a city-state in Southeast Asia. Practically on the equator, Singapore is a small country on a small island with five million people. Founded as a British trading colony in 1819, since independance it has become one of the world’s most prosperous countries.

All information about Singapore and places to visit can be found at the official Singapore tourism website