The International Public Health Pesticides Workshop: An Examination of the Barriers and Possible Solutions for Bringing New Public Health Pesticide Products to Market in Developing Countries is organized by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, CropLife International, the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization.
Currently, there are barriers for the introduction of new chemicals and products to support the control of vectors that carry public health diseases such as dengue, malaria and encephalitis especially in tropical countries. At the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, the Parties took a decision to establish a Global Alliance to promote the development and deployment of alternative products, methods and strategies to DDT for disease vector control. One of the goals of this Global Alliance is: “To make available new alternative vector control chemicals”.
This International Public Health Pesticides Workshop provided a forum for regulators from disease endemic developing countries to examine the barriers, capacities and solutions for increasing the efficiency of registration of new Public Health Pesticides toward stimulating the marketing of new PHP products.
At the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, the Parties took a decision to establish a Global Alliance to promote the development and deployment of alternative products, methods and strategies to DDT for disease vector control. One of the goals of this Global Alliance is: “To make available new alternative vector control chemicals”. The two pathways for realising this goal are: “Bring to market new formulations of existing pesticide classes equally effective as DDT in vector control”; and, “Address the issue of barriers to discovery and commercialization and bring to market new active ingredient classes to counter vector resistance in the long term”. This workshop investigated these pathways to achieving this goal of the Global Alliance.
The International Public Health Pesticides Workshop provides a forum for regulators from disease endemic developing countries to examine the barriers, capacities and solutions for increasing the efficiency of registration of new PHPs toward stimulating the marketing of new PHP products.
Approximately twenty-seven selected pesticide Regulators from a wide cross-section of disease endemic developing countries. Presentations were entertained from individual specific key stakeholders (approximately 13) including related experts from developing countries, industry, competent authorities in developed countries, philanthropic organizations, NGOs, IGOs and Donors. In total, participation included approximately forty persons.
Report of the International Public Health Pesticides Workshop New approaches and strategies for the development of new public health pesticide tools. London, UK. 19-21 May 2009
Benoît B. Bouato
Elected Permanent Secretary of CPAC
Dr Stephen Battersby
President CIEH & Chair National Pest Advisory Panel
Vincent Dartigues
Head of Product Development & Regulatory Affairs (Bayer Environmental Science), on behalf of the Vector Control Project Team of CropLife International
DR. PAUL SAOKE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PSR) KENYA
VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DOCTORS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (ISDE)
Dr Robert Sloss IVCC
By Halimi Mahmud
Pesticides Board, Malaysia
Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention
By Geoffrey Onen, Government Chemist and Analytical Laboratory
Lois Rossi
Director, Registration Division
Office of Pesticide Programs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Henk van den Berg
Wageningen University
Dr M. Zaim
WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES)
Vector Ecology and Management
World Health Organization
SHOKI AL‐‐DOBAI, Ph.D.
Pesticide Directorate, GDPP
Ministry of Agriculture & Irrigation, Yemen
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