Specific Objectives:

-To establish priorities and to design strategies for strengthening and harmonizing the regulation of medicines in the Caribbean in the context of the essential public health functions,

-To share the outcomes of surveys related to pharmaceutical situation and the assessment of national regulatory authorities in the Caribbean;

-To design and discuss mechanisms of communication and collaboration among regulatory authorities.

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-To identify the possible common legal framework, guidelines and technical documents for strengthening essential regulatory functions;

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-To discuss possibilities to strengthening the Human Resource capacity for regulation of medicines.

Participants:

14 Caribbean countries, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Pharmaceutical Procurement Service (OECS/PPS) and experts from SECMED (Cuba), National Medicines, Food and Medical Technology Authority (ANMAT-Argentina), The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA-Brasil) and The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA-United States).

Presentations:

• Regulatory Function of Drug Registration(Dr. Celeste Sánchez González)
• Strengthening the National Regulatory Authorities and the Essential Regulatory Functions (Dr. Adriana Mitsue Ivama)
• Pharmaceutical Situation (Dr. Adriana Mistue Ivama)
• The Regulatory dimension as an Essential Public Health Function (Dr. Gabriel Vivas)
• Current Status of Pan American Network for Drug Regulatory Harminization (PANDRH) (Dr. James Fitzgerald)
• Essential Regulatory Functions: Quality Assurance The CRDTL Experience (Dr. Lucette Cargill)
• Experiences on harmonization and mechanisms of sub-regional integration