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Malaysia Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, director general of health at the Ministry of Health of Malaysia unveils the government’s plan to bring healthcare back to the community, and create a culture based around a healthy lifestyle. Dr  Hisham also discusses the future potential for digitalization within the Malaysian healthcare apparatus.…

Spain Fernando Prados Roa, deputy minister of health for Madrid, discusses the health paradigm of the community and elaborates on the role of SERMAS in managing and coordinating the city’s public healthcare system.   What sets us apart in healthcare is our professionals Could you begin by introducing SERMAS – the…

Malaysia Dr. Azrul Mohd Khalib, chief executive at the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy, gives an insight on the current important issues the Malaysian healthcare ecosystem is facing and the different solutions and strategies the Galen Centre, as a thinktank for health and social issues, has identified for the…

France Frédérique Vidal, the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, discusses her plans to create innovation campuses to facilitate the collaboration between industry, institutes and academia. She also highlights the importance of European collaboration in the fields of research and artificial intelligence.   I know first hand the importance…

Malaysia A map showing 18 of the active clinical trials sites in Malaysia in 2017. The sites are spread across the entire nation and cover a variety of therapeutic areas – including gastroenterology / hepatology, cardiology and oncology –  with a cluster of activity in Kuala Lumpur.   In terms of…

Algeria With stiffening up of local content requirements well underway, many multinational drug developers seeking to introduce their therapies to the Algerian marketplace have been scrambling to team up with the handful of indigenous CMOs that possess the requisite quality standards and reputations to handle their brands. Here is a selection…

Malaysia Malaysia’s multi-ethnic population, disease burden, medical infrastructure and research speed, combined with its population’s proficiency in English, make the Southeast Asian nation a potentially excellent regional clinical trials destination.   We have a population of 32 million which represents a third of the world’s genomics Dr Akhmal Yusof, CRM Dr…

Opinion Richard Saynor, Senior Vice President, Classic and Established Products at GSK urges big pharma to weigh in on improving global health and well-being to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  On the part of pharmaceutical companies, we have a responsibility to help people gain access to high-quality healthcare and…

South Korea South Korea’s proposed Moon Jae-In Care has been subject to both praise and protest this year. President Moon Jae-in’s plan dubbed “Moon Care” will be implemented in stages throughout 2022 and pledges to expand healthcare coverage to cover 70 percent of the people’s costs. Korea currently runs on a health…

China China’s stupendous economic resurgence over the past four decades never ceases to awe, but what has captured attention in recent years has been the country’s international awakening. Against a nasty backdrop of intensifying populist nationalism, right-wing radicalism and trade protectionism in many advanced economies, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s surprising 2017…

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Malaysia Shahnas Oli Mohamed, the managing director of Natural Wellness Holdings Sdn Bhd, expresses the important work that Natural Wellness has done to provide natural healthcare products to Malaysian patients, including a specific halal line to satisfy the community’s needs in that area. She also identifies the opportunities Natural Wellness will…