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Rogério Gaspar, born 1961 (Pharmacist, FFUC,1985; PhD, UCLouvain,1991). From January 2021 to end August 2026 as Director RPQ at WHO. Tweeting in my personal capacity.

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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Health: A Political Choice - Promoting a Healthy Future
Health: A Political Choice – Promoting a Healthy Future brings together global leaders and health experts to examine the choices shaping our health and well-being. Edited by Ilona Kickbusch and John K...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Rogério Gaspar Announces His Mandatory Retirement From WHO After an Impactful Experience - OncoDaily
Rogério Gaspar Announces His Mandatory Retirement From WHO After an Impactful Experience / AI, cancer, COVID-19, Mariângela Simão, OncoDaily, Oncology,
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Rogerio Gaspar (@RogerioSaGaspar) on X
The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the first global framework to help medicines regulators accelerate the transition towards greener pharmaceuticals without compromising quality, safet...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Council appointed new mandate holders including the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Mariangela Simao (Brazil) www.ungeneva.org/en/news-medi...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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G7 leaders call for strong, coordinated response to Ebola outbreak
G7 leaders called on Tuesday ​for a strong ‌and coordinated response to the Ebola outbreak in ​Congo, urging other ​nations to dedicate resources ⁠in a bid ​to ensure the ​virus remains contained to a...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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WHO consultation builds momentum for coordinated action on pharmaceutical decarbonization
Global stakeholders call for harmonized standards, stronger collaboration and practical regulatory pathways to support greener medicines without compromising access, quality or safetyMore than 100 par...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
GHEC is a framework for enhancing health emergency workforce capacity within health emergency prevention, preparedness, response and resilience (HEPR) work, and a collaboration platform for countries and health emergency networks. www.who.int/emergencies/...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“In an increasingly fractured world, health remains a unifying force.” (Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, DG WHO) Read in online.flippingbook.com/view/151757628
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Experts convened by WHO advise on candidate treatments and vaccines for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus
In response to the current outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda, WHO convened several of its exper...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Bundibugyo virus disease PHEIC - Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) for IVDs. Instructions and requirements for EUL submissions of IVDs for Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) nucleic acid detection are being asked to manufacturers for Expression of Interest. lnkd.in/ez4jnD-u
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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79th World Health Assembly closes, latest on Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus
On 19 May 2026, Dr Tedros, convened the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the epidemic of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democr...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern
Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international concern, including a pandemic emergency of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), the Di...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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LIVE update on #hantavirus
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Global consultation on greener pharmaceutical regulation - Regulators as enablers of pharmaceutical decarbonization
Regulators are central to ensuring that the transition to greener pharmaceuticals strengthens access to safe, effective and quality-assured medicines. The Greener Pharmaceuticals’ Regulatory Highway i...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Seven sentenced after MHRA investigation uncovers £1.8m illegal medicines and steroids network
An MHRA-led investigation has exposed a £1.8 million illegal medicines and steroids network, leading to seven men being sentenced.
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Annual full staff retreat 2026 - Department of Regulation and Prequalification at WHO in Geneva. “Facing challenges with solutions: building robust, resilient and reliable regulatory systems for equitable, affordable and quality-assured access to medical products”
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Facing challenges with solutions: innovation-driven regulation of medical products”, by Rogério Gaspar. substack.com/@rogeriogasp...
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“Facing challenges with solutions: innovation-driven regulation of medical products.” Regulation of medical products saves lives. When regulatory systems are weak, people die. From the 1930s and int...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Annual report 2025 Department of Regulation and Prequalification World Health Organization (Geneva) The Department of Regulation and Prequalification provides critical functions on prequalification and strengthening regulatory systems. lnkd.in/erEUtQiZ
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Why regionalized vaccine manufacturing matters in aftermath of COVID-19
Production is highly concentrated globally making lower- and middle-income regions vulnerable to supply shocks, regulatory bottlenecks, and slow pandemic response.
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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This Ramadan, we must fight for health
Ramadan was always my favorite time of year growing up in Jeddah. I cherished the iftar meals prepared with care, the visits to Makkah to see my grandparents and pray at the holy mosques, and the eage...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“(…) These market failures demonstrate why access cannot be treated as an afterthought—or a matter of charity. It must be treated as a core function of the global health system and financed as a global public good.(…)” www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/the-...
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The Global Health Reform Debate's Dangerous Blindspot  | Think Global Health
Unitaid's executive director compels countries to consider how the future global health system ensures equitable access to innovation
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Pharmaceutical crime in Europe involves various illegal activities that endanger public health, exploit legitimate supply chains, infringe intellectual property rights, and generate substantial illicit profits. www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...
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3 354 individuals prosecuted in Europol-coordinated hit against pharmaceutical crime networks – EUR 33 million worth of illicit medicines and doping substances seized in Operation SHIELD VI | Europol
Between April and November 2025, law enforcement, judicial, customs, medical and anti-doping authorities from 30 countries joined forces in Operation SHIELD VI. Europol coordinated this global effort ...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Leaving WHO does not serve America’s—or the world’s—best interests
The United States has supported the World Health Organization (WHO) since its inception, playing a central role in its 1948 creation because it ultimately served American interests, despite the entity...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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TIME100 Health 2026
In today's changing health landscape, these leaders are advancing care, shaping policy, and driving innovations that transform lives.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/02/2026
Don't miss this week's new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine! A study traces the genetic origins and geographic spread of bed net insecticide resistance in mosquitoes in Africa, an intranasal prophylactic antibody for the flu shows promise in early trials, and more. scim.ag/4bFxL5n
The cover illustration depicts a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell (blue) targeting a malignant B cell (pink) expressing a B cell receptor (BCR) derived from the immunoglobulin heavy variable 4-34 gene(IGHV4-34), which is overrepresented among BCRs in certain B cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases.
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United Nations University @ununiversity.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The last #UNUINSIGHTS newsletter of 2025 features the new UNU institute on #AI in Italy, an examination of the Youth, Peace and Security (#YPS) agenda and academic and career opportunities from across UNU's global system. Read more: buff.ly/AUJEXnY #UNUat50
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/12/2025
Although we may be on the cusp of a major shift in how music is made, achieving excellent results will always require a human approach. @skornhaber.bsky.social on the 10 best albums of 2025:
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The Best Albums of 2025
This year’s most interesting artists invented their own grammar and tunneled in idiosyncratic directions.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/12/2025
“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote in January. Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/UvwCdoBh
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/01/2026
Parents have been expressing concern about their kids’ screen time for years—but what about their grandparents'? @cwarzel.bsky.social on the phone-based retirement:
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The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here
Do your parents have a screen-time problem?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/01/2026
Some polar-law scholars argue that curbing climate catastrophe may require a radical reimagining of sea ice, Brett Simpson reports:
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The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, But Not About Ice
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/01/2026
"The first days of the year can feel like the comedown after too much sparkle. But the calm that follows has its own promise." Rafaela Jinich writes in Time-Travel Thursdays on how to embrace January’s quiet invitation without sinking into the slump.
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After the New Year’s Eve Party
Early January can feel like the comedown after too much sparkle. But the calm that follows has its own promise.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/01/2026
The ancient, contemplative form of poetry can capture, perhaps better than any other, the muffled quality of chilly afternoons and days spent indoors.
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The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days
Each collection speaks to a different seasonal mood, but all are worth slowing down with before the new year.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/01/2026
A year ago, it wasn’t clear whether Project 2025 would amount to much. Today, it’s become the Trump era’s most effective policy initiative. In The Atlantic Daily, @dgraham.bsky.social reviews how Project 2025 transformed 2025:
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The Plan That Foretold Trump’s 2025
Reviewing Project 2025’s year of successes and shortcomings
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 02/01/2026
Roberts’ 2025 Supreme Court report invokes founding ideals, calling the Constitution “firm and unshaken.”
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John Roberts Issues 2025 Supreme Court Report: What He Says
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/01/2026
Dollar makes a soft start to 2026 after sharpest drop in 8 years reut.rs/4pl23gL
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Dollar makes a soft start to 2026 after sharpest drop in 8 years
The U.S. dollar made a feeble start to 2026 on Friday after struggling against most currencies last year, while the yen steadied near 10-month lows as traders awaited economic data this month to gauge the path of interest rates.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/01/2026
The new mayor promised to govern ‘expansively and audaciously’, saying he would restore faith in the government’s ability to make life better for ordinary people. ft.trib.al/Tz9NGsR
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“A daily grind of negative news makes it hard to remember everything that happened in a given year,” the Editorial Board writes. Continuing our tradition of using yearend to reflect on moments of hope, here are 25 events during 2025 that renewed our sense of optimism. wapo.st/4sc7pxu
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Just published (pages 6-11) lnkd.in/eY8bQ9GQ
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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WHO regional director talks health care issues in the Middle East | CNN
World Health Organization regional director to the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Hanan Balkhy, discusses the challenges of conflict, migration and economic instability for public health in the Middle Eas...
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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The first global pandemic treaty — and the woman who made it happen
Precious Matsoso is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/11/2025
I listen to the day. I remember the rule of law, the rule of the two-second advantage, it sounds like endings, a vacancy expecting re- velation, re- evaluation, expecting to become a river of selves, of dis- appearing selves A poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
To advance an international strategy to marshal resources, coordination, and political will for PPR financing, the G20 South African Presidency convened the High-Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. nam.edu/pandemic-fin...
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Pandemic Financing
The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In Beijing on November 7th with Deputy Commissioner Yang Sheng of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and leadership. A meeting between WHO and NMPA addressing the next steps on regulatory system strengthening activities between WHO and NMPA.
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Human Rights Subcommittee @droi.europarl.europa.eu · 03/11/2025
🆕 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Chairs of @droi.europarl.europa.eu @mounirsatouri.bsky.social & @euds.europarl.europa.eu @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social reaffirm their unwavering commitment to the safety of journalists Read more 👇 link.europa.eu/kT4phg
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The EU must defend journalists worldwide from assassination and imprisonment | News | European Parliament
Chairs of the EP’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
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WHO @who.int · 29/10/2025
WHO condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u
WHO condemns killings of patients and civilians amid escalating violence in El Fasher, Sudan
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CEPI @cepi.net · 28/10/2025
One of the world’s deadliest viral pathogens, Nipah virus, could soon have a new line of defence against it as CEPI, the University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India collaborate to create the world’s largest investigational ready reserve of a Nipah virus vaccine candidate.
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Establishing the world’s largest Nipah virus vaccine reserve | CEPI
CEPI, Serum Institute of India and the University of Oxford collaborate to manufacture ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccines for Phase II trials and
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗖𝗩𝗠𝗡 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗶! “Advancing Innovation & Building a Resilient Vaccine Ecosystem for a Safer World.” www.youtube.com/live/4qsfA4t...
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26th DCVMN Annual General Meeting 2025 - Inaugural Session
YouTube video by DCVMN International
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rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social @rogeriosagaspar.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Launched in 2022 to replace the previous SRA model, the WLA initiative provides a transparent and evidence-based pathway for global recognition of regulatory authorities to facilitate regulatory convergence and reliance. Full list of WLAs in www.who.int/initiatives/...
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