Niranjan Konduri
niranjankonduri.bsky.social
Niranjan Konduri
@niranjankonduri.bsky.social
Healthcare policy| Access to Medicines|
WHO received a (formal) report from the International Health Regulation (2005) (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) of the United States of America

#measles
March 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Indication-based pricing likely improves allocative
efficiency by moving closer to the …first-best outcome, as it enables drug producers to capture consumer surplus and enhances access to new medicines, akin to third-degree price discrimination.
January 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A problem - the global community continues to separate discussions about climate change, pandemic preparedness, and other health campaigns.

Vanessa Kerry & Priya Basu argue why these are inter-related while summarizing progress to date especially on financing.

www.bmj.com/content/388/...
January 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Key message:

Investments are needed too build the capacity of Africa-based
researchers and genomics laboratories to capture data on malaria parasitic mutations longitudinally and inform tailored contextualized interventions.
January 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If spending increases are due to technological advances that are improving or extending life, then they may be “worth it.”

We find diffusion of higher quality new innovations where the costs appear to exceed the benefit from a consumer’s perspective #PharmaSystems
December 16, 2024 at 4:49 PM
#GLP1

Role of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 in women with obesity planning pregnancy
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
The Kenya Medicines Regulatory Agency (Pharmacy and Poisons Board) launched cutting edge technology to detecting substandard and falsified medical products

Advanced Near Infrared Technology (NIR) known as Pillscan
December 11, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Predominantly Black neighborhoods had the steepest declines in pharmacies after 2018, led by large drops in numbers of chain pharmacies
#PharmaSystems
December 9, 2024 at 3:52 PM
The overall risk level to the affected communities is assessed as high while it is moderate to at national level in DR Congo
December 8, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Latin America is a leader in nonprofit open-access journals. But it struggles to give them global visibility
www.science.org/content/arti...
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Massive study of 400,000 pediatric urgent care patients.

Antibiotic Rx rate much higher

1) for Blacks, Hispanics, Asian kids
2) speak Spanish
3) on self pay or Medicaid/Medicare
December 4, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Opportunities to advance pre-eclampsia and eclampsia – focused on low-resource settings
December 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
CDC’s budget has been largely flat for a decade, when adjusted for inflation.
December 3, 2024 at 2:08 PM
‘Unintended consequences’ of [price] transparency

healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-re...
February 7, 2024 at 10:37 PM