Substandard and Falsified (SF) Medical Products in Francophone Sub‑Saharan African Countries with Raffaella Ravinetto

The next speaker in our series is Prof. Raffaella Ravinetto, PharmD, PhD, Head of the Public Health Department, and a professor in pharmaceutical public health, at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium.

About the Speaker

Raffaella Ravinetto, PharmD, PhD, has a thirty-year experience in commercial and non-commercial clinical research, humanitarian programmes, pharmaceutical policies, and research ethics review. She is  the Head of the Public Health Department, and a professor in pharmaceutical public health, at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium. She is also the chairperson of the ITM Institutional Review Board; the chairperson of the MSF Ethics Review Board; an extraordinary professor at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa; and a senior editor of the BMC Medical Ethics. Her main areas of interest include pharmaceutical policies and equitable access to quality-assured health products, with a particular focus on the context of…