Department ofPharmacoeconomics andPharmaceutical Administration
Contents
Welcome to the Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration (DPPA)
Message of the Head of the Department
About the Department
Department Profile
Mission and Vision:
Course Outlines:
Research Center:
Academics
Admission:
Administrative Staff:
Our Alumni:
Job Placement of Graduates:
Recommended Reference Books:
FAQs:
Welcome to the Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration (DPPA)
Pharmaceuticals are indispensable to healthcare systems, as they reduce morbidity and mortality rates and enhance patients' quality of life. However, in order to have effective and efficient use of pharmaceuticals, it is necessary to have access to high-quality, safe, available and affordable medicines.This is why access to health cares and essential medicines is increasingly being viewed as a fundamental human right.
Development and diffusion of high technique and expensive health technologies in past decades has raised serious concerns about fair accessibility ofhigh-quality, safe and affordable medicines. It is estimated that around 2 billion people (one third of the global population) do not have regular access to essential medicines. This proportion in some low‐income countries is increased to one half of the population.
Availability of experts in the fields of pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical Administration is of the key parameters for monitoring, evaluating and reporting the performance of healthcare systems in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and equity of their services. The DPPA was developed in summer 2008 in response to this need. The aim of DPPA is to offer high-quality education in the fields of pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical Administration at PhD level.
Message of the Head of the Department
Welcome to the DPPA. Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration are growing sharply and have become key components of pharmaceutical policy making and administration, worldwide. In DPPA, as one of thepioneer Pharmacoeconomicsdepartmentsin Iran, we offer a great diversity of knowledge and expertise in both Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration. In DPPA we offer a broad range of taught courses including Micro and Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Econometrics, Methods of Economic Evaluation, Pharmacoeconomics Modeling, innovation management, strategic management, and supply chain management. We also offer some short course trainings in various management and applied economics sciences for industrial managers (for example MBA course in pharmaceutical Administration).
The research interests of DPPA staff encompass a wide range of subjects such as economic evaluation, outcome measurement, equity, regulation evaluation, health and pharmaceutical policy evaluation and pharmaceutical Administration.
We hope this move could be efficient in optimum resource management in our country.
About the Department
DPPA was established in 2008 to promote the science of management, economics and policy making in different aspects of pharmacy, based on research and academic education. This department is devoted to empirical research and methodological developments in the field of pharmacoeconomics,pharmaceutical Administration and health policy. Our research focus is on economic evaluation, health technology assessment, Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmaceutical systems, management, and policy analysis.
According to the definition of health system (WHO 2000):
"…all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health.…" DPPA could have an important role to help health and pharmaceutical policy makers in achieving this objective more clearly. Likewise DPPA could help policy makers to attain other goals of health system, such as efficient responsiveness, and fair financial contribution more successfully.
Department Profile
Regarding Human Resources, seven academic members are affiliated to this department with a variety of experience and educations related to pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical administration topics. Also the department has 7 associated academics.
Currently, there are 26 active PhD students in the department, thirteen of whom are board certified. The Department is located on the 3rd floor of the faculty of pharmacy old building. Research interests of the department are economic evaluation, health technology assessment, pharmacoepidemiological research, pharmacy practice innovations in hospitals and health systems,management, and policy interventions.
Mission and Vision:
The missions of the DPPA are to:
-Apply economic & management sciences to the field of pharmaceutical policy, regulation and Management
-Improve the economics& management knowledge of pharmacists
-Apply pharmacoeconomic studies into the pharmaceutical system to improve effectiveness, efficiency and equity of its services.
-Expand knowledge and expertise in Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration.
Vision
The main objective of DPPA is to raise and maintain the standing of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in academic circles, both domestically and internationally in applied fields in Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration.
DPPA provides an environment in which researchers, health care practitioners, decision-makers and those interested in Pharmacoeconomics and outcome research can share their knowledge and experience freely.
Course Outlines:
Course outlines are critical resources that will help students understand each course: its aims, learning outcomes, course requirements and assessment. A course outline can be divided into three sections; core courses (27 units/credits), None-core courses (13 units/credits), and thesis (20 units/credits). The details of core courses are presented in below table.
Core Courses of Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration
No. / Course / Credits / hour01 / Medical information systems / 1 / 17
02 / Research methods in health & social sciences / 2 / 34
03 / Advanced Biostatistics / 3 / 51
04 / Health economics / 2 / 34
05 / Accounting &Financial management / 2 / 34
06 / Management for health system managers / 3 / 51
07 / Strategic management / 3 / 51
08 / Methods of econometrics / 2 / 34
09 / Economic evaluations / 2 / 34
10 / Pharmaceutical laws& legal rules
(domestic and international) / 2 / 34
11 / Pharmaceutical policy making / 2 / 34
12 / Pharmacoepidemiology / 3 / 51
13 / Pharmacoeconomics / 3 / 51
14 / Pharmaceutical policies in the world / 2 / 34
15 / Management of research, development and marketing / 2 / 34
16 / Seminar / 2
17 / Supply Chain Management / 2 / 34
18 / Management control systems / 2 / 34
19 / Thesis / 20
Research Center:
Recently, the Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration group has obtained the establishment license of “Pharmaceutical Administration and Pharmacoeconomics Research Center".
-Aims of the research center of drug policy making:
1)Conduct research in these fields:
- Health system policy making
- Accessibility to drugs
- Affordability
- Equity in health system
- Quality management of medical products
- Pharmacoeconomics in micro and macro fields
- Rational drug use
- Medicine marketing
- Drug export development
- Supply chain management
- Budgeting
- Clinical trials
- Health technology assessment
2)Publish related magazines, books, articles…
3)Participate in efficient human resourcestraining
Academics
DrAbbas KebriaeezadehEducation:PharmD, PhD in Pharmacology
Academic position:Professor ,Head of the Department
Research interest:Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration
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DrMajidDavari
Education:PharmD, PhD in Health/ Pharmacoeconomics
Academic position: Assistant Professor
Research interests:Economic Evaluation,HTA, Efficiency , Equity, and Policy evaluation,
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DrShekoufehNikfar
Education:PharmD, PhD in Pharmacoeconomics
Academic position: AssociateProfessor
Research interests:Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Meta-analysis,Evidence –Based Medicine Documentation, Economics and management research in pharmaceutical affairs, Drug policy evaluation, Equity in Health (Drug Availability and Affordability), Pregnancy outcomes
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Dr Akbar AbdollahiAsl
Education:PharmD, PhD in Pharmacoeconomics
Academic position: Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Management- Pharmaceutical supply chain, Management- Pharmaceutical Policy, Information technology management- Data mining, Modelings in health care systems, Pharmacoeconomics- Cost-Benefit studies, Resource Allocation in health systems, Pharmaceutical pricing, Budget impact analysis, Social Pharmacy- equity access to medicine
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Dr ArashRashidian
Education: PhD in Health Policy & Management
Academic position:Professor
Research interests:Pharmacoeconomics, Health Policy, Health Economics
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DrAli Akbari Sari
Education: PhD in Health Policy & Management
Academic position: Associate Professor
Research interests:Pharmacoeconomics, Health Policy, Health Economics
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Dr AlirezaHosseini
Education:PharmD, PhD in clinical pharmacy
Academic position: Associate Professor
Research interests: Health Policy, Health Economics
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Admission:
Currently the DPPAaccepts students in PhD degree program from various backgrounds, including pharmacy, physician, health care management, and health technology assessment. All applicants are required to participate in the faculty professional entrance exam.This exam is held usually in October each year.
Administrative Staff:
ParvinShakibaee
Position: Secretary
Contact Details:
Email:
Telephone: 98 21 66 48 26 06
Fax:98 21 66 48 26 06
Our Alumni:
1-Dr. FatemehSoleimani
2-Dr. ShekoufehNikfar
3-Dr. Akbar AbdollahiAsl
4-Dr. Amir Farshchi
5-Dr. Mona JaberiDoost
6-Dr. GolbargGhiyasi
7-Dr. KhosroKeshavarz
Job Placement of Graduates:
We expect that the graduates of our PhD program could get places in the four following fields:
1-Educational fields
-Teaching Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration discussions to pharmacy students.
2-Managerial fields
- Application of economics&management sciences to evaluation, analysis and policy making in Pharmaceutical fields.
- Managing various Pharmaceutical units.
3-Research fields
-Leading & supervising researches in the fields of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration& Policy.
4-Industrial fields
Recommended Reference Books:
- Recommended references for majors of course:
- Economics of Health and Health Care: Sherman Folland, Allen Goodman, MironStano.
- Health Care Economics; Principles and tools for the health care industry: Thomas E. Getzen
- Handbook of Health Economics: A. Culyer& J. Newhouse
- Pharmacy Management: MCGrawHill Medical (2009) Shane P. Pesselle, David P.Zgarrik
- Pharmaceutical Systems (2008), John Lilja, Sam Salek, Aldo Alvarez, David Hamihor, john Wiley &Sons LTD.
- Quality (Pharmaceutical Engineering Series): Kate McCormick.Vol. 2, 2002.
- Dictionary of pharmacoepidemiology: Bernard Begaud, John Wiley & Sons
- Pharmacoepidemiology: Brian L. Strom, John Wiley & Sons.
- Comprehensive pharmacy review: Leon Shargel. Alan H. Mutnick, Paul F. Sourey. Larry N. Swanson.
- Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programs: MF Drummond, B O'Brien, GL Stoddert, 2005.
- Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine: M.R Gold, J.E. Siegel, L.B. Russell, M.C. Weinstein; 1995.
-Economics Evaluation in Health Care, Merging theory with practice. MF Drummond, Alistair McGuire, 2005.
- Health economics: An introduction for health professionals: CJ Phillips, 2005.
- Pharmacoeconomics: T. Wally, A. Haycox and A. Boland, 2004.
- Supply chain management a handbook for strategic procurement.
- Mastering strategic management: Tim Hannagan
- Strategic management awareness and change: John Thompson with Frank Martin
- Supply chain management best Practices: David Blanchard
- Marketing management: Philip Katler
- Economics of Health and Health Care, the (6th Edition); Sherman Folland, Allen Goodman, MironStano
- Handbook of Health Economics,2000, (Volume 1 A, and 1B); A. Culyer , J. Newhouse
- Economics of Health and medical Care (Last Edition); Philip Jacobes, John Rapoport
- Health Information Management: Abdelhak, Mervat.
- Health care Informatics: Englebardet, Sheila 8 et al.
- Information management for health profession: Johns, Merida.
- Management Information system: Lucey, Terry.
- Health information management: Skurka, Margaret.
- Medical information: Shortliffe, Edward.
- Managing health care information systems: Wage, Katen.
- Essentials of Management (An international Perspective): Harold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich.
- Performance measurement & control systems for implementing strategy: Robert Simons, et al. US Edition.
- Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives, Kenneth A Marchant and Wim van der Stede.
- Evaluating pharmaceuticals for health policy and reimbursement, Freemantle and Hill, Blackwell Publishing
- How to develop and implement a National Drug Policy, WHO Publication
- Managing Drug Supply, Kumarian Press, Kate Mccormick
- Drugs and drug Policy: Mork A.R. Kliman.
- Microeconometrics: methods and applications: Adrian Colin Cameron, 2009
- Health Econometrics: A. Jones. Chapter 6 from "Handbook of Health economics",2000, (Volume 1 A); A. Culyer , J. Newhouse
- Introduction to Econometrics: James H. Stock, Mark Watson, 2011
- Policy innovation for health: IlonaKickbusch.
- Market timing for dummies: Joe Duarte.
- Pharmaceutical Innovation: Frank A. Sloan.
- Pharmaceutical Marketing, DimitrisDogramatzis, CRC press, 2002.
- Valuation in life sciences, a practical guide: Boris Bogdan.
- Time series analysis and forecasting: Robert Yaffe.
- The Elements of investing, Charles D. Ellis.
Examinations and Awards:
1-Accomplishments of Dr. ShekoufehNikfar:
- Top female scientist in developing countries
- Ibnsina prize winner in 1389
- Top post graduate among all residents
2-Accomplishments of Dr. Amir Farshchi
- Young scholar of Razi festival
- Dr. Shafiee prize winner
- Young scholar of Dr. Shamsipour festival (1388 & 1389)
FAQs:
Am I eligible to apply?
Applicants must have completed pharmacy or MD or Master in health management or economics to apply for the Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration program.
It is important to review the Faculty of Pharmacy Requirementsat Tehran University of Medical Sciencesto determine eligibility.
How do I apply?
Review the Application Procedureinformation and follow the steps outlined in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy.
What are the admission requirements?
Applicants must submit an official transcript and an updated CV.
What language is the program conducted in?
The program is completely delivered in Farsi language.
How long does the program last?
The program must be studied full-time, which takes 8 semesters in total.
How can I contact DPPA?
Tel: 98 21 66 48 26 06
Fax: 98 21 66 48 26 06
Do you have any MBA programs?
Yes we have. There is a pharmaceutical MBA program in this group.
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