Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs

Biography

Rizwan Arshad is a young public health researcher having 13 years of experience on accessibility of medicines (ATM) primarily hard to hard to find medicines including rare and orphan drugs for the vulnerable patients in Pakistan. Currently he is working on the model development of one window services model (OWSM) for the accessibility of cancer immunotherapies and orphan/rare drugs on named patient basis. It is his research model and core interest area as well. He has been associated with many organizations as a consultant for the alignment of health services along with regulatory authorities and identification of gaps in health for the communities and provides the solutions thereof. He is also responsible for making an outreach to peripheries within the country for the accessibility of quality drugs to the community people.

Research Interest

Rare Diseases Drug and orphan drug