The Swedish Council on Medical Ethics (Smer) is together with Lund University, arranging the conference:
Illegal and spurious medicines – a danger to public and personal health
When: 19 September, 2016
Where: Rosenbads Conference center, Drottninggatan 5, in Stockholm
The purpose of the conference is to highlight the trade with illegal medicines and discuss it from a global, national and ethical perspective. The conference is free of charge but the tickets are limited.
If you are interested in attending the conference, you can make a registration on our Swedish website http://smer.se/konferenser/illegal-and-spurious-medicines-a-danger-to-public-and-personal-health/ or contact the secretariat (Helena.tereus@regeringskansliet.se). Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!
Programme
12.00-13.00 Registration and coffee
13.00-13.05 Conference opening Kjell Asplund, chair of Smer
13.05-13.25 The epidemiology and impact of poor quality medicines on global Health Paul Newton, Professor of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University and Vientiane, Laos
13.25-13.45 Substandard, Spurious, Falsely labelled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) Medical Products Pernette Bourdillon Esteve, WHO
13.45-14.05 ‘Operation Robin’ Lina Andersson, Law Enforcement Swedish Customs
14.05-14.25 Panel discussion with Paul Newton, Pernette Bourdillon Esteve and Lina Andersson. Moderator: Susanne Lundin
14.25-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.20 How to stop illegal medicines – The Medical Products Agency’s perspective Tomas Nilsson, The Swedish Medical Products Agency
15.20-15.40 Falsified medicines, ethics and global justice Erik Malmqvist, Associate professor in Medical Ethics, Linköping University
15.40-16.00 Fake medicines. What the public knows and what doctors say Susanne Lundin, professor in ethnology, Lund University and Rui Liu, MA
16-00-16.50 Panel discussion with Erik Malmqvist, Rafaela Ravinetto, Henrik Rasmusson, Margareta Troein, Barbro Westerholm and Erik Blohm. Moderator: Kjell Asplund
16.50-17.00 Closing speech Kjell Asplund and Susanne Lundin