The Fab, petal 2 - 4th floor, Maison de la paix, Geneva Graduate Institute
Research presentation and coffee chat with PhD candidate Anthony Rizk
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No Manufacturing Like Crisis Manufacturing: Lebanon's Pharmaceutical Shortage Crisis from Within
In the early years of the Lebanese Republic, in 1948, the newly-formed Lebanese Ministry of Health attempted to wrest control over drug pricing from local pharmaceutical importers. These efforts were only partially successful. In 2021, in the midst of a financial crisis of unprecedented scale, pharmaceutical importers withdrew drugs of all classes from the Lebanese market, successfully winning a tug-of-war with the Lebanese Government to lift its drug subsidies and make pharmaceutical imports profitable again. Since then, the prices of pharmaceuticals in Lebanon have reportedly risen by more than 1,000%.
In this talk, Anthony will show how a pharmaceutical shortage crisis is experienced from within, and can reveal the workings of a complex political economy of local pharmaceutical organising in a historically import-reliant economy.
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Anthony is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute. His dissertation explores the collapse of healthcare, and its reorganisation, amidst Lebanon's ongoing financial crisis.
The Global Health Centre (GHC)
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