The overarching aim of the International Society to Improve the Use of Medicines (ISIUM) is to raise awareness and promote the best use of medicines throughout the world to improve health and the management of disease in human beings, including all situations that involve or affect health and the use of medicines in the wider environment.
We will champion change for best use of medicines in society at all levels by . . .
Connecting
We will establish a platform to connect people of different backgrounds and capacities to share information on any activities relating to improving the use of medicines. We will gather information from members to create:
- databases of members and their networks, their interests and activities in improving the use of medicines,
- databases of, and links to, independent and trusted sources of information about medicines and their use.
Thinking
We will create a think tank:
- to analyse, articulate and disseminate controversial issues relating to the use of medicines in society that have been identified by any process within ISIUM,
- to develop and publish articles that translate the complex issues behind the science and use of medicines for various audiences, particularly lay people and regulators, and
- to identify and stimulate discussion on other critical and pertinent issues such as:
– the limits of knowledge of medicines,
– the processes used to create evidence, and
– issues surrounding conflicts of interests in the marketing and regulation of medicines in society.
Innovating
We will invite enquiry into aspects of medicines in society to support the needs of people, looking critically at what we do not know including previously unconsidered perspectives:
- to develop new paradigms, and
- to reveal and give expression to views of medicines outside conventional approaches.
In all activities we will encourage the adoption of high ethical standards of all people involved in any work that is centred around improving the use of medicines.