Starting the third day of the #LSECorruptionWorkshop with a great presentation by Constance Viehbeck about #regulatorycapture in FDA expedited approvals!
Iva Parvanova LSE Health Policy

Final talk of the #LSECorruptionWorkshop by Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 (@LSEHealthPolicy) on whether ministers who are medical doctors make a difference on health system outcomes and choices (spoiler: they do!)
Iva Parvanova

Wrapping up the first day of the #LSECorruptionWorkshop ! A huge thanks to our keynote speakers Matthew McCoy and Piotr Ozieranski, our moderator Susan Bewley and to all participants!
A shoutout also to our sponsors Young Scholars Initiative & LSE Health Policy! Iva Parvanova

'Most drug epidemics in the US start with a legally-produced drug'. Adam Soliman discussing the impact of physician crackdown on opioid use, prices and illicit drug use #LSECorruptionWorkshop Arianna Gentilini

Corporate interests and (de)colonialism in healthcare - a fascinating case study on the links between the oil industry and the Kurdistan Children Hospital Foundation Goran Zangana MD, MPH, PhD #LSECorruptionWorkshop Arianna Gentilini

✅️ Day 2 of #LSECorruptionWorkshop on all things corruption.
Informal payments,efficiency losses and all things procurement.

Finishing off w a panel on research ➡️ practice Claudia Baez-Camargo TI Global Health & Jillian Kohler. Thanks to Young Scholars Initiative & LSE Health Policy
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Really interesting presentation from Zdravko Veljanov from GovTransparency on efficiency gains from reducing procurement corruption risks #LSECorruptionWorkshop

GNACTA making an appearance at #LSECorruptionWorkshop during Prof Jillian Kohler's talk (@UofTPharmacy ) on ACTA mechanisms

Victoria Tzortziou Brown Victoria Tzortziou Brown shows wide variations in conflict of interest policies calling for change of language to declaration of interest and more standardisation of management of COI #LSECorruptionworkshop

Kristy Scarfone fascinating presentation on state capture by the pharmaceutical sector in patient group #LSECorruptionworkshop

I asked a room full of conflict of interest experts if they had heard of the medical device payment transparency database transparentmedtech.eu

No one had heard of it.

Not very transparent.

Read our preprint to learn more: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Are health ministers who are doctors more or less likely to be nepotistic & more or less likely to spend on health- interesting research from Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏

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Would be interested to look closely at Ireland’s equivalents - Dr’s James Reilly & Leo Varadkar

The Cumberledge review called for doctors to declare their conflicts of interest. But how easy is it for doctors, who have roles in multiple organisations, to adhere to multiple different conflict of interest declaration policies - Victoria Tzortziou Brown opens the #LSECorruptionWorkshop

Corruption, medicine, the oil industry, privatisation, nepotism, a prime minister and more - a whistle stop tour of corruption in the Kurdistan children’s hospital by Goran Zangana MD, MPH, PhD

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“How transparent are self-regulatory conflict of interest declaration systems like disclosure UK? (abpi.org.uk/reputation/dis…” Conor Kearns presenting our RCSI Department of General Practice University of Bath research he worked on during his RCSI Research and Innovation Summer School placement
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Thank you LSE Health Policy and Young Scholars Initiative for the opportunity to share findings from Alejandra Cervantes Nieto and my research on transparency and governance in drug treatment systems at the #LSECorruptionWorkshop ! Thank you again to Regional Academy on the United Nations and Dr Elizabeth Saenz for your support 🇺🇳

In Sierra Leone health authorities and/or public hospitals ‘recruit’ medical and nursing graduates on an unsalaried basis, promising eventual paid public employment - Ellen Pieterse outlines this interesting phenomenon at the #LSECorruptionWorkshop

equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Legal enforcement actions taken against rogue suppliers of prescription opioids decreases opioid dispensing, though significant heroin substitution then occurs - interesting examination of US opioid epidemic by Adam Soliman

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Wide range of conflicts of interest amongst US Dietary Guidelines Committee member, there is a need to better prevent and manage conflicts of interest like these - excellent presentation by Angela Carriedo at #LSECorruptionWorkshop

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35311630/

“There is a surprising variation in unit prices for pharmaceutical products, even for the same product within each country” - fascinating presentation by Zdravko Veljanov on corruption and centralised procurement.
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