May 26 - 30, 2009, in Washington DC

Theme: New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities

SCMS had three abstracts accepted as panel presentations at the 2009 Global Health Conference.

• Stanley Mapiki of Botswana: Improving Healthcare Access by Addressing Drug Registration Backlog
  
• Dr. Lesley Ramsammy, Guyana's Minister of Health:  Saving Lives - Getting Medicines and Commodities to People
  
• Mohammed Jinnah of North-West University in South Africa: Counterfeit Drugs and Pharma Surveillance, and Avoiding the Bitter Pill;Quality Assurance Prevents Harm.

  
  

To expand the conversation beyond those attending the conferences, SCMS is hosting an online forum to enable technical practitioners to further discuss key issues as well as propose their own works for discussion from June 1-12.

     
• Mr. Stanley Mapiki will host a discussion of his presentation, "Improving Healthcare Access by Addressing Drug Registration Backlog"
• Mr. Tom Layloff will host a discussion of the presentation, "Avoiding the Bitter Pill: Quality Assurance Prevents Harm"