Aligned with its’ public health strategy, the UAE Ministry of Health (MoH) and Sanofi, a global and diversified healthcare leader, have signed an agreement to develop the ‘Integration Initiative’, a series of training courses for clinical, general and drug safety practitioners, as well as pharmacists concerned with scientific research in the UAE.

At the signing ceremony of the Integration Initiative between the Ministry of Health and Sanofi, His Excellency Dr. Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health and Licensing Sector at the UAE Ministry of Health explained the importance of enhancing the skills, efficiency and performance of pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners to improve the health of people in the UAE.

“In addition to consulting patients, pharmacists need to be up-to-date on good clinical practices, clinical standards, guidelines and drug safety. We are working with Sanofi, who has the expertise to providing world-class training for pharmacists, to create a robust program that will upskill pharmacists as well as further develop the level of scientific research and clinical practices in the field of drugs to world-class standards,” said His Excellency Dr. Amin Hussein Al Amiri.

During the period of the initiative, the program aims to train professionals in five key areas; clinical studies and good clinical practices, pharmacoeconomics and health economics, combatting drug counterfeiting, pharmacovigilance and the ideal use of antibiotics.

“Sanofi recognizes the important responsibility it has to proactively contribute to driving scientific innovation. We have the expertise needed to respond and support the UAE Ministry of Health strategy of benchmarking worldwide best practices in healthcare and scientific research. Our commitment to the Ministry of Health is to help deliver training of an international caliber and quality to pharmacists, specifically in scientific research and medical biostatistics. At Sanofi, patients are at the center of everything we do and we want to empower pharmacists so that they may ultimately render services to patients of the highest standards,” concluded Ayman Mokhtar, General Manager at Sanofi Gulf.