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Portugal Graca Didier, secretary general of AmCham Portugal, discuss the role of her chamber of commerce in promoting strong relations between America and Portugal. In addition, she comments on the cultural differences between the two countries and how Portugal can learn a lot from America in terms of creating a better…

China The Greater Bay Area (several cities in Guangdong Province in mainland China along with Hong Kong and Macau) is a major Chinese government scheme to link the entire region into an integrated economic and business hub . The Greater Bay Area, taken as a whole, dwarfs the world’s other major…

India Yugal Sikri, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Management Program of the prestigious NMIMS University, and with an extremely rich experience in the pharmaceutical industry, explains his mission to build a valuable discussion platform for CEOs and institutions of the industry alike.  Such industry efforts will ensure the Indian pharmaceutical industry efficiently…

Portugal Joaquim Cunha, executive director of Health Cluster Portugal – a private, non-profit organisation dedicated to the consolidation of Portugal’s healthcare industry – discusses the up and coming changes to the healthcare sector through the innovative use of technology and its data. He also highlights why a new era for the…

UK Keith Thompson, CEO of the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult, one of a number of Catapult institutions in the UK designed to help commercialize innovative research, discusses strategy, funding, international collaboration and Brexit.     Most likely, the UK is the best environment for putting forward trials that are properly…

India Raghuveer Kini, executive director of the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) provides insights into the key success factors that have allowed India to become the world’s pharmaceutical hub and gives us his assessment of the recent plateauing of Indian exports as well as an overview of the new…

Canada Referring to the Canadian affiliate of Zimmer Biomet as a “trailblazer”, Dave O’Neil looks back on a successful 2017 for the musculoskeletal healthcare company in Canada. He describes how Zimmer Biomet positions itself as a true partner in driving efficiency in the Canadian healthcare system. 2017 was an eventful year…

Baltics In terms of being able to access medicines, patients in the Baltic states fare poorly compared to many of their European counterparts. 135 new medicines were approved by regulators in Lithuania and Estonia in 2016, but only 38 and 30 were made available to patients respectively. Latvia fares even worse,…

India Jean-Pierre Baylet, country head for India and cluster head for South Asia at Sanofi Pasteur, provides insights into the progress and room for improvement that lie ahead for India’s immunization program, while highlighting Sanofi’s unrivalled commitment to protecting the Indian population from vaccine- preventable diseases like polio and flu as…

Portugal Oscar Gaspar, VP of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry (CIP), president of the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitalization and former secretary of state for health (2009-2011), provides an informative insight into the state of Portugal’s healthcare system. Through compelling suggestions and observations on the current system, Gaspar sheds light on…

India Dr. Deepak Sawant, Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Maharashtra, provides insights into some crucial achievements with regards to the state’s infant and child mortality rates, the improvement of Maharashtra’s emergency response and ambulance system, and the prevention of oral cancer. While highlighting the state’s…

Latvia The top 20 companies in the Latvian pharmaceutical market for 2017, sorted by total value and market share, with data on year-on-year growth. American giant AbbVie ranks first, with an almost six percent market share and astounding 65 percent year-on-year growth, followed by TEVA and Sanofi.