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Reflecting Back: Forum Activities in 2010
Pages 4-7

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... The discussion at the workshop and workshop summary report helped inform the HHS Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Review, released in August 2010. FORUM ACTIVITIES TIMELINE 2000–2004 2005 Clinical Research Roundtable, predecessor to the Drug Forum
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... In that same year, the FDA Science Board, at the request of Congress, reported on the agency's need for an enhanced science base, including infrastructure development, multisector collaboration, and an expanded workforce capable of address ing the rapidly evolving science of drug discovery and development. In 2008, the Forum held a public workshop to explore the science of drug regulation, focusing on the gap between leading-edge technologies of drug development and FDA's capacity to adapt its process of regulatory evaluation to these technologies.
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From page 6...
... of NIH to develop coordinated MDR TB-related research meetings in both Russia and South Africa, and that collabora tion is continuing in 2011 as the Forum plans its next workshop in New Delhi, India. The NIH meetings focus on science and opportunities for scientific collaboration, while the IOM meetings address health care delivery, drug access, public health, and other policy issues.
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From page 7...
... Paul Farmer of Partners In Health delivered speeches and participated in session discussions. Like the South Africa meeting, the meeting focused on various aspects of MDR TB (including epidemiology, diagnostics and preven tive therapies, treatment, transmission and infection control, pediatric TB, and public policy issues)
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