Pharmacovigilence in Healthcare

IIHMR University conducted a Management Development Programme on Pharmacovigilence in Healthcare from 15-19 December 2015. It was a Five day program which started on 15 dec 2014 and concluded on 19 dec 2014 at Indian Institute of Health Management and Research University

World Health Organization defines Pharmacovigilance as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other medicinerelated problem.

Once drugs are into the market, a medicine leaves the secure and protected scientific environment of clinical trials and is legally set free for consumption by the general population. At this point, most medicines will only have been tested for short-term safety and efficacy on a limited number of carefully selected individuals. Understanding different aspects of Pharmacovigilance is important as it is essential that new and medically still evolving treatments are monitored for their effectiveness and safety under real-life conditions post release.
The aim of the course is to strengthen participants with concepts and current practices in Pharmacovigilance.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

• To understand different aspects of Pharmacovigilance in practice
• To prepare for Pharmacovigilance audit preparation & regulatory inspection
• To understand issues regarding risks and benefits of drug use in humans including the cause, manifestations and consequences of adverse drug effects (ADEs).
• To understand about detection and monitoring of the ADR.
• To introduce participants to fundamental statistical, compliance and regulations concepts and methods.

KEY CONTENTS

• Adverse event (AE) definition & reporting
• Causality assessment of adverse event
• Risk Management
• Compliance to Clinical Safety
•  Expectedness assessment of an adverse event
• Medical Dictionary, Drug coding, Unbinding & reporting
• Issue work-up of aggregate data-consideration of preclinical, clinical, epidemiological, safety database, aggregate analysis
• Design of Post marketing studies
• Global Pharmacovigilance Regulations, ICH, EMEA, US FDA directives
• Periodic Surveillance Update Report/ Annual Safety Report
• National Pharmacovigilance Program
•  Management and Importance of Pharmacovigilance

Rational Use of Medicines - A Focus on HIV /AIDS, TB and Malaria

Under the UN initiative for Universal Healthcare Coverage, a public healthcare system can serve at its best only with access to essential medicines. Having economical measures in place to fight major diseases is not enough to extend basic healthcare services to those who cannot afford it. The whole effort of extending the basic healthcare service to the deprived/ underprivileged can attain highest level of success with appropriate use of resources combined with effective and efficient systems/orders. Rational use of medicines plays a vital role in healthcare systems. Essential medicines are still inaccessible for population struggling with poverty and are still fatally affected by HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Emergence of antimicrobial resistance continues to pose a global problem in handling the management of these diseases. Access to medicines can be best ensured by proper selection and use of medicines, affordable prices for quality medicine, sustainable financing and reliable health system. Irrational medicine use is a public health problem worldwide. Counterfeit and substandard medicines also create an impediment in access to quality medicines. Given the number of lives being claimed each year from diseases that can be easily treated and/or prevented, there is an urgent need to put in place advanced and tangible policies that would ensure access to essential medicines.

The Indian Institute of Health Management and Research, University has been contributing towards this very topical issue of international importance through its flagship WHO sponsored International Courses in Promoting Rational Drug Use in Communities (PRDUC). Since 2003, 11 PRDUC programs, 3 international courses on Anti-retroviral and Related Drug Supply Chain Management in Low Resource Settings, 2 international training courses in Pharmaceutical Management in Hospitals, one each program on “Rational Use of Medicines with focus on HIV, TB & Malaria” and “International Procurement of Medicines & Health Supplies” have already been organized by the IIHMR University. In view of the current global focus on HIV/AIDS, TB AND Malaria, a two week International Course on Rational Use of Medicines - A Focus on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria will be organized at IIHMR University from January 5-16, 2015.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The specific objectives of the programme are:

1. To enable participants understand and comprehend the concepts and principles of access to medicines with tools and intervention to promote rational use of medicines.
2. To facilitate appreciation of the significance of a national and international medicine policy environment and how it affects the course of healthcare system.
3. To provide key information and expertise towards ensuring better affordable access to medicines and healthcare services.
4. To share strategies and conscious actions to promote rational use of medicine with focus on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
5. To expose the participants to practical approaches in developing effective strategies for change.

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Since its inception in 1984, The institute has made a distinct place for itself and become a leading organization in the country engaging itself in health management research, education and trainging to ful fill its mission to dedicate itself to the improvement in standards of health through better management of health care and related programs. The institue has played a pioneering role in establishing health management as a distinctive discipline in india and overseas. Over the past two decades, the healthcare and systems research and program evaluation undertaken at the national and international level by the institue have made a significant influence on policies and programs in the health sector.

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 Perspectives in Pharmaceutical Industry: Response of Pharma Education on December 20,2014 at the campus

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Lesser Known Facts about IIHMR

IIHMR University is a premier university of academic excellence in healthcare sector. For the past 31 years this university has been working constantly to provide better health solutions in India and overseas. Over the past 3 decades the Institute has made a distinct place for itself and becoming a leading organization in the country engaging itself in health management, research, education and training to fulfill its mission to dedicate itself to the improvement in standards of health through better management of health care and related programs.    

Apart from having world class architecture, Dr. D. A. Anderson Library, infrastructure and lush green environment, IIHMR has been home of renowned faculty, students and some species of birds. In a place like Jaipur which has less Flora and Fauna diversity because of Desert area IIHMR serves as a home of about 44 different species of birds. Most of the birds are found in Indian Subcontinent especially in plains. 

Brahminy Myna

Brahminy Myna or Brahminy Starling found only in Indian Subcontinent. Its head has a black crown nape (back of the neck) and crest, and the underneath of the tail is white

Shikra

Shikra or Hawk of woodland found in India and Africa. Also know as “Little Banded Goshawk. It produces loud piercing calls

Rufous Tree Pie

Rufous Tree Pie a bird with scooty head and neck and impression of grey, black and white in wings and tails and makes very musical calls is easily sight able in the campus.

Asian Pied Starling

Asian Pied Starling also known as Pied Mynas are starlings found in South and Southeast Asia. They are locally known as Gursal, Ablak and Ablaki Maina.  IUCN (2006) listed them recently as among “100 of the World’s Most Invasive Species”. Birds in a group call frequently with a wide repertoire that includes whistles, trills, buzzes, clicks, and warbling calls. Young birds taken into captivity have been trained to imitate tunes of other birds.

Common Myna

Common Myna also known as Indian Myna. It is an omnivorous open woodland bird with a strong territorial instinct IUCN Species Survival Commission declared it one of the world's most invasive species and one of only three birds in the top 100 species that pose an impact to biodiversity, agriculture and human interests

Oriental Magpie Robin

The Oriental Magpie Robin is distinctive black and white birds with a long tail that is held upright as they forage on the ground or perch conspicuously. They are particularly well known for their songs and were once popular as cagebirds. The oriental magpie-robin is national bird for Bangladesh. People of Bangladesh recognize it as "Doyel".

Indian Robin

Indian Robin is a familiar plains bird, coming freely round houses and spending most of its time on the ground. Easily identified by the habit of holding the long tail erect so as to exhibit a bright chestnut patch below its base. In character it exhibits the curious mixture of boldness and suspicion.

Indian Silverbill

The Indian Silverbill or White-Throated Munial is a tiny gregarious bird which feeds mainly on seeds. It frequents dry open country and cultivation, especially near water. Creamy underside with darker upperside, often displaying dark to black primaries along the lower edge of the folded wing, as well as a dark tail that is often somewhat pointed.

Purple Sunbirds

The Purple Sunbirds are small, nectar-feeding birds that belong to the sunbird family. Local movements are noted especially in the drier parts of northwestern India and Pakistan where they are said to arrive in large numbers before summer. Purple sunbirds are quite noisy, with a song that is described as a rapid rattle followed by ringing, metallic notes; and calls

Loten's Sunbird

The Loten's Sunbird, Long-Billed Sunbird or Maroon-Breasted Sunbird is a sunbird endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its long bill distinguishes it from the similar purple sunbird that is found in the same areas and also tends to hover at flowers. Like other sunbirds, it feeds on small insects and builds characteristic hanging nests. The species is named after a colonial Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Gideon Loten.

Lapwing

Lapwing also known as the Peewit in imitation of its display calls, its proper name describes its wavering flight. Its black and white appearance and round-winged shape in flight make it distinctive, even without its splendid crest. This familiar farmland bird has suffered significant declines recently and is now an Red List species

Egret

An Egret is a bird that is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season. The word "egret" comes from the French word "aigrette" that means both "silver heron" and "brush", referring to the long filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season.

Oriental white-eye

The Oriental white-eye is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is a resident breeder in open woodland in tropical Asia. They forage in small groups, feeding on nectar and small insects. They are easily identified by the distinctive white eye-ring and overall yellowish upperparts. These white-eyes are sociable and lives in flocks They are highly arboreal and only rarely descend to the ground.

Koel

The Koel belongs to Cuckoo family is a musical Bird and is widely used symbol in Indian poetry. The Asian koel is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of crows and other hosts, who raise its young ones. Males and females Koel are distinct in appearance. The male is glistening black, with yellowish green bill and crimson eyes. The female is dark brown, with profusely spotted and barred with white.

Coucal

A Coucal is one of about 30 species of birds in the cuckoo family. Unlike many Old World  cuckoos, coucals are not brood parasites. Coucals are rather terrestrial, preferring to walk than fly. They emerge in the open only in the early morning. The rest of the day, they forage on foot in tall grass. When disturbed, they make a short flight with shallow wing beats and brief glides into cover. They then scuttle away on foot. They are strong runners and have straight hind claws and are sometimes called "lark-heeled cuckoos".