Background The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the WHO Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) to assess and benchmark the drug regulatory systems and practices in national medicines regulatory authorities (NMRAs). [...]
The aim of this study was to assess the good review practices (GRevPs) of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Ghana in order to identify opportunities for improvement. Reviewers [...]
Background: The Malaysian National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) has partnered with the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS) since 2018 to analyze the approval processes for new active [...]
Introduction National regulatory medicines authorities (NRAs) are mandated to ensure timely access to high-quality, safe and efficacious medical products, primarily achieved through a marketing authorisation procedure established in each [...]
This study investigates the utility of the Universal Methodology for Benefit-Risk Assessment (UMBRA) framework within the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to determine whether adopting a structured [...]
Objectives Regulators must balance medicine benefits and risks while ensuring consistency, transparency, and efficiency in decision-making and the aim of this study was to assess UMBRA’s impact on SAHPRA [...]
Objectives To identify the current perspective of the FDA Ghana in the implementation of Good Review Practices, provide a baseline on the knowledge, attitudes, practices, as well as identify [...]
Objectives 1. To investigate ways in which the regional initiative could be well coordinated.2. To propose an improved model for the East African Medicine Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative joint assessments.3. [...]
Objectives To assess the quality of the decision-making process followed by regulatory reviewers, explore their perceptions of the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) decision-making approach, and evaluate the usefulness [...]
Background and Objectives The inherited backlog of 16,000 medicines applications of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) was cleared through facilitated review pathways that included reliance on [...]
