Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program
Project Date: 2007–2012
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Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems is a follow-on to the Rational Pharmaceutical Management (RPM) Plus Program. MSH is pleased to announce that the US Agency for International Development has awarded us the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement. SPS will focus on four key results:
To help meet goals relating to the key result areas, the SPS Program is building on the successes of RPM Plus while expanding the range of technical areas to include financing, pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical care, integration of new health technologies, and increased use of the private sector, among others. MSH will accomplish this enhanced program of activities by collaborating with a number of new partner organizations.
The SPS core partner team includes:
- Improve governance in the pharmaceutical sector
- Strengthen pharmaceutical management systems to support public health services
- Contain the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance
- Expand access to and improved use of essential medicines
To help meet goals relating to the key result areas, the SPS Program is building on the successes of RPM Plus while expanding the range of technical areas to include financing, pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical care, integration of new health technologies, and increased use of the private sector, among others. MSH will accomplish this enhanced program of activities by collaborating with a number of new partner organizations.
The SPS core partner team includes:
- BroadReach Healthcare
- Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network
- The Lewin Group
- LMI Government Consulting
- University of Washington Department of Global Health
- WHO Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy: Harvard University/Boston University
- African Medical and Research Foundation
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Euro Health Group
- Infectious Disease Institute at Makerere University
- Joint Commission International
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine