Formulating and Implementing Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies : Challenges, Case Studies and Lessons Learned from Medicine Price Control

Provides readers with a framework to understand and analyze several medicine pricing policies. Through case studies from countries across geographies and income tiers, this book explores the challenges and opportunities related to price control experiences. Studying global policies this book discusses approaches, strategies, and the underlying pharmaceutical pricing practices used to provide advice for formulating highly effective policies. Alongside the cases, this book covers appropriate research methods for pricing analysis, the essential components of pricing policy, data quality, and the generic structure of a pharmaceutical pricing policy.

• Covers the most updated pricing material on the drug pricing control policies
• Demonstrates in real terms, how a medicine pricing policy is formed in a country
• Discusses the empiric basis of forming a medicines pricing policy

Professor Zaheer Babar is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Practice at the College of
Pharmacy, Qatar University, and serves as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Pharmacy
at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. He has extensively published research
on medicine pricing and access to medications, gaining international recognition for his
contributions to pharmaceutical policy. Professor Babar has collaborated with organizations
such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Health Action International,
Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the International Union Against Tuberculosis and
Lung Disease, and the World Bank to develop medicine pricing policies for various countries.
His edited work include “Economic Evaluation of Pharmacy Services,” “Pharmaceutical Prices
in the 21st Century,” “Pharmaceutical Policies in Countries with Developing Healthcare
Systems,” “Global Pharmaceutical Policy,” “Access to High-Cost Medicines,” “Pharmacy
Practice Research Methods,” “Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies,” “Encyclopedia of
Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy.” And “Encyclopedia of Evidence in Pharmaceutical
Public Health and Health Services Research in Pharmacy.”