DIA’s mission – to work across the healthcare continuum to ensure patients receive the therapies they need – is more essential than ever during times like these. DIA acknowledges the time and effort that has gone into planning and preparing for DIA’s Pharmacovigilance Strategies Workshop, and trusts that everyone will understand the need to respond to current, evolving health concerns in a responsible manner. These precautions are being taken to ensure the health and safety of our entire, global DIA family.

DIA is committed to exploring all possible avenues to provide a productive setting and a fulfilling meeting experience. We appreciate your patience as we work through any potential challenges.

Periodic safety surveillance and continuous improvement of quality and manufacturing controls of products are requiring marketing authorization holders to frequently engage with regulators and update their initial product licenses to the state of the art. However, coordinating regulatory activities with global manufacturing operations and supply of medicines have made appropriate change control a challenging task, specifically when differing requirements, processes and timelines are applied in different countries and regions. These divergent practices bear potentially unintended consequences and unnecessary supply disruption risks for products that are essential to patients.

Considering closer alignment with EU regulatory frameworks, this workshop will discuss the opportunities for convergence and streamlined regulatory management, assessment and approval of post-approval changes, which in turn will facilitate the efficient management of change control and better planning of global supply by manufacturers.  In addition, opportunities for more collaboration and reliance on regulatory marketing authorization assessments and renewals performed in national Health Authorities across countries and regions might have further positive impact on capacity and resources at regulator level and speed up the implementation of quality and safety changes for products on the market. This Workshop will also allow the participants to learn from best practice examples and share those learnings across boundaries.

Participants will get free access to the DIA eLearning course on variations to learn the basic principles and prepare for the conference discussions.