Luis Rhodes Baiao

A particular health policy topic you are interested in and why?

This is a very vibrant period we are living now in Europe (that’s early 2023, if you are reading in the future) relating to policy making for medicines in particular. The Pharmaceutical legislation, that dates back 20 years with several patches in between, is finally being fully revised. Environment seems to be taking a priority in all policies, so pharmaceutical business and medicines manufacturers are adapting to this new reality. The digital transition in the EU is furthering how we might be using health data in the future, by defining the Health Data Space beyond the concerns of RGPD, and how the hype of technology might shift how we design and understand medicines and treatments.

However health budgets are not stretching, and I see that the profession of pharmacist is embracing new roles, providing new services to the population, like in immunisation, enhancing health literacy in their communities, and supporting the health system sustainability.

I cannot be interested in just one topic as all these are interlinked but I am eager to see how all of it plays out in the future