Summary

  ㅁ Title: The 2nd Meeting on Access to Medicines under Universal Health Coverage in the Asia Pacific Region
  ㅁ Date: 17 – 18 September 2015
  ㅁ Venue: Grand Hilton Hotel, Seoul, Korea
  ㅁ Hosted by OECD KOREA Policy Centre (Health and Social Policy Programme), OECD, WHO WPRO,

       WHO Collaborating Centre (SNU)
  ㅁ Participation: 41 persons
     ㅇ Pharmaceutical policy experts from the Asia Pacific countries
     ㅇ International Organizations: OECD, WHO WPRO, WHO SEARO, WHO Country Office

  Programme Summary

         ㅁ 17 September 2015

              Opening and Welcome addresses
         - Lee, Suk Kyu, Director General, OECD KOREA Policy Centre

         - Klara Tisocki, Cordinator, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific

         - Taejin Lee, Professor, WHO Collaborating Centre at Seoul National University

         - Luca Lorenzoni, OECD

    
       Pharmaceutical Policies and the Regional Network on Access to Medicines under Universal Health

              Coverage
         1. Pharmaceutical policies for UHC – Global Perspective
            - Presentation by Suzanne Hill (WHO)
         2. Latest trends in pharmaceutical pricing policies and gaps in evidence
            - Presentation by Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar (New Zealand)
         3. Medicines access issues in the Asia Pacific and the vision of the regional network
           - Presentation by Klara Tisocki (WHO WPRO)

       Understanding Country Pharmaceutical Systems
         1. Summary of Brief Country Profiles
            - Presentation by Uhjin Kim (WHO WPRO)           

                2. Poster Walk on Brief Country Profiles

       Adopting PPRI survey for the regional network – purpose and methodology
         1. Presentation by Taejin Lee (WHOCC)           

         2. PPRI longer survey presentation

            - Philippines (Francisco Soria)
            - Korea (Youn Jung)
         3. Collecting feedback on longer survey
            - Presentation by Klara Tisocki (WHO WPRO)

         4. Plenary

       Access to High Cost Medicines
         1. Strategies to expand access to viral hepatitis treatment in Mongolia
            - Presentation by Tsetsgee Pureviav (Mongolia)             

         2. Access to new Hepatitis C treatment in Australia

            - Presentation by Adrian Platona (Australia)
         3. Managing intellectual property for access to viral hepatitis medication
            - Skype presentation by Peter Beyer (WHO)
         4. Plenary (sharing country situations by network members) 

  ㅁ 18 September 2015

              Pharmaceutical policies to address medicines access issues in the Asia Pacific Region
         1. Access to medicines for the ageing population in Asia Pacific
            - Presentation by Libby Roughead (Australia)
         2. Country Situation Analysis in SEARO countries
            - Presentation by Kathy Holloway (WHO SEARO)

                3. A proposal for a framework to access the impact of changes in policies on pharmaceutical spending

                    and coverage trends
            - Presentation by Annalisa Belloni (OECD)
 

              Pharmaceutical System Analysis, Gaps, and Opportunities
         1. Group Work
         2. Plenary