On Friday, December 1st, 2023, The 2023 Symposium on Public Health Strategies for Combating Counterfeit Drugs took place. This symposium was hosted by the Behavioral and Educational Strategies for Avoiding Falsified Medicine Exposure (BESAFE) team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The symposium brought together leaders, experts, and professionals to discuss the burden of counterfeit drugs and explore innovative strategies for public health safety. The theme of this symposium was paving the path for transformational partnerships between public health researchers, drug manufacturers and suppliers, regulatory and law enforcement agencies, policymakers, and program implementers to stop counterfeit medicine.

The symposium featured insightful and engaging research and panel discussions that was led by global experts in the field. These discussions specifically addressed the global burden of counterfeit drugs, public health responses to counterfeit drugs, intervention strategies for consumers and patients, intervention strategies for pharmacy services, intervention strategies for health care providers and intervention strategies input from policy advisors.

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