Interrelation among Innovation, Medical Regulatory Agencies and Health Emergencies: Do We Need to Be Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
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Health regulation is often seen as a unilateral process only in charge of authorizing whether a medicine, a biological substance, equipment and/or medical device can be marketed or not. The current development of innovation, globalization, and health threats is forcing regulatory systems to face a changing environment. Integration into the new reality of the medicine market focuses on the need to adapt methodologies, which promote continuous and gradual learning within the regulatory process, as well as its capacity for strategic anticipation. This article shares some reflections on the importance of having an adaptive and planned mechanism for health emergencies, with periodic reviews and inserted in the automatic regulatory processes developed by each national regulatory agency. This aspect, seen as an integral part of the system, favors greater insertion of innovation, international regulatory collaboration, and convergence, by facilitating the regulatory agency's response to a pandemic and immediate access to safe health products.
Keyword: Sanitary Regulation; Pandemic; Scientific Innovation; Medicines; International Cooperation; Health Emergency.
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