ISIUM publishes two newsletters each year. These include articles on interesting and innovative projects and initiatives being undertaken around the world, profiles of individual members and their work, as well as any other important activities, meetings/webinars and papers being planned. The intention of the newsletters is to encourage links and networks around the globe.
Copies of newsletters can be downloaded below.
Newsletter #11, September 2023
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Gilson Mandigo (Zimbabwe)
- an article from ISIUM member, Adriane Fugh-Berman, about a new Alzheimer’s drug,
- a report on the April 2023 Conversation, The role of patient groups in heath policy,
- a review of James Davies’ book, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis, and
- an article from Uruguay, Antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newsletter #10, March 2023
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Joel Lexchin (Canada), who reflects on his 'unexpected but fulfilling life',
- a report on the August 2022 Conversation, Government programs for medicine use during the pandemic,
- a report on the December 2022 Conversation, Children and medicines: Children as agents of change, and
- a review of the book, Who Killed Rational Use of Medicine?
Newsletter #9, September 2022
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Lydia Green who reflects on her career
- a report on an innovative campaign in Tanzania to increase awareness of antimicrobial resistance,
- communicating risks around vaccines and medicines: keeping things in perspective
- reports of clinical pharmacology and pharmacy meetings in Kazakhstan, and
- report on distribution of COVID-19 ‘kits’ in Latin America
Newsletter #8, March 2022
Featuring:
- new and retiring ISIUM board members … plus
- reflections on the December ISIUM Conversation from Yong Kwok
- information about the Latin American organisation, CIMLAC
- a report from Canada on fluoroquinolone prescribing
- a progress report on work being done to develop the ‘RDU Country’ concept, and
- an article by a Kazakh teeenager on a survey she undertook to explore students’ knowledge and attitudes about antimicrobials and COVID-19.
Newsletter #7, September 2021
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM director, Yong Kwok, who reflects on her work as a consumer advocate on medicines and health policy … plus
- an article about the popular ISIUM Conversations
- information about a new ISIUM initiative on storytelling: health and use of medicines
- a report on progress to develop the ‘RDU Country’ concept
- tributes to three recently deceased colleagues who contributed much to improving health and the use of medicines, and
- further reflections on the medicalisation of life by medical students in Ecuador.
Newsletter #6, March 2021
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Raikhan Tuleutayeva, who reflects on her journey in medicine and clinical pharmacology in Kazakhstan … plus reports on
- the situation in South Sudan by ISIUM member, Buchay Otham Rago
- promoting rational use of antimicrobials in Lalitpur (Nepal) by ISIUM member, Ravi P Shankar
- access to insulin by ISIUM member, Christa Cepuch, and
- reflections on the medicalisation of life by Maria Belén Mena and Xavier Maldonado (Ecuador).
Newsletter #5, September 2020
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM director, Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee, and her work with Drug System Monitoring and Development Center (Thailand) … plus articles on
- Australian Therapeutic Guidelines in Pacific countries
- using television and journalists to promote rational use of medicines
- teaching tomorrow’s prescribers in Ecuador.
Newsletter #4, April 2020
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Kathy Holloway, and her work with the World Health Organization and now with the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, UK
- plus reports, reflections, photos and news from the Bangkok conference.
Newsletter #3, August 2019
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Libby Roughead, and her work at the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre in Adelaide, Australia
- plans for the 2020 Bangkok conference
- pharmacoepidemiology in Cuba
- problems with out-of-stock medicines.
Newsletter #2, March 2019
Featuring:
- a profile of ISIUM member, Natalia Cebotarenco, and her work with the Coalition for Rational Use and Safe Use of Medicines (CoRSUM) in Russian-speaking countries
- new board members
- collaboration with other organisations.
Newsletter #1, September 2018
Featuring:
- about ISIUM
- joint meetings with ReAct Latin America.