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APAC Writing in the September edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Rosilawati Ahmad of Malaysia’s National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency; Tharnkamol Chanprapaph of the Thai FDA; and Samvel Azatyan, Valerio Reggi, and Prapassorn Thanaphollert of the World Health Organization highlight the progress towards regulatory harmonization in ASEAN and work between country-level regulatory…

Singapore Annie Tan highlights the strategy she laid out to navigate the BMS Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia affiliates through the COVID-19 pandemic; the opportunities and challenges of integrating the Celgene portfolio into local BMS operations; and her aim to build the company into an oncology and haematology powerhouse in Southeast Asia…

Singapore MSD’s Ashish Pal describes how he led the Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei cluster through a challenging 2020; the importance of leveraging learnings from the past year to create a more resilient, agile, and digitally-focused affiliate; and why increased levels of public-private collaboration in the region are vital to building a…

Singapore Bayer’s Dr Vincent Ruland highlights his career trajectory from medical doctor to pharma country manager; the company’s priorities in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei; and leveraging the Asian innovation ecosystem.   The industry tends to foster experts and specialists, but the world is changing so rapidly that we need to be…

Asia-Pacific Andrew Hexter, VP and GM of Gilead Asia 5 (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia), shares the highlights of his past three years leading the diverse region, the significance of Asian markets being the first to approve remdesivir as a COVID-19 treatment, and the importance of public-private partnerships…

Malaysia Eurasia Group’s Aditya Bhattacharji discusses the relatively modest scope of Malaysia’s recently-launched ‘MYSalam’ scheme; a healthcare programme which aims to provide coverage to the country’s bottom 40 percent of earners.   For the time being, the outlook for the private sector, including for pharmaceutical firms, is good Another populist government,…

Malaysia The growth of the Malaysian pharma market between 2006 and 2016. Pharmaceutical sales grew to over USD 2 billion by 2016, thanks in large part to a burgeoning prescription medicine segment.   The import and export of pharmaeuticals in Malaysia between 2006 and 2016. In 2016, the trade balance stood…

Malaysia After 61 years of single-party rule, the May 2018 electoral victory of the populist Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition sent shockwaves through the Malaysian political landscape. This has been keenly felt within the healthcare sphere, where industry players are broadly supportive of PH’s plans to increase low-income Malaysians’ access to treatments…

Malaysia Click here to download the Healthcare & Life Sciences Review Malaysia 2018. After recent elections conducted in May 2018 saw Mahathir Mohamad returning as Prime Minister after 15 years to seal a historic victory, Malaysia is again back on its feet. Bolstered by well-established institutions, a fully-functional IP framework and strong…

Malaysia American medtech giant Baxter and pan-Asian healthcare service provider Zuellig Pharma have been collaborating in Malaysia to increase the quality and quantity of care that can be given to patients in their own homes, generating significant cost-savings for the healthcare system and increasing patient-centricity.   “[Home care] reduces costs significantly,…

Malaysia Sherene Azli, CEO of the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC), introduces this unique organization in charge of promoting Malaysia internationally as the ‘Cardiology and Fertility Hub of Asia’ and explains the advantages of receiving medical treatment in Malaysia.   Our main goal is to establish Malaysia as the leading global…

Malaysia Rashidah Ibrahim, executive director of Malaysian Vaccines & Pharmaceuticals (MVP), tells the story of MVP as the sole animal vaccines manufacturer in Malaysia. She also explains how important animal health is for human health and what plans she has set for the company moving forward.   Animal and human health…