Scientific committee

Anna Birna
Social and Clinical Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Co-chair: Emerging capabilities to generate medicines intelligence data at scale
Co-chair: The role of drug utilisation data in evaluating safety of drug use

Balázs Hankó
University of Semmelweis, Budapest, Hunagary
Hungary representative

Björn Wettermark
Department of Pharmacy Uppsala University, Sweden
Co-chair: Drug Utilisation Research as a tool in the introduction of new medicines; Challenges for Drug and Health Policy; Psychotropic drug use

Douglas Steineke
University of Manchester, UK
ISPE SIG DUR representative

Monique Elseviers
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Session: The re-rewarding of primary data collection and field research, Title: "Creative methodologies of primary data collection and field research in resource-restricted settings: examples, opportunities and limitations”
Co-chair: Challenges for cross-national comparison research; Medicines use in old age: Drivers of polypharmacy and quantification of the problem

Katja Taxis
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Co-chair: Emerging capabilities to generate medicines intelligence data at scale
Co-chair: Policies on deprescribing – an international view

Ramune Jacobsen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sessions: Methods (Advanced methodology, The added value of doing mixed-method research)
Co-chair: Evolving data streams, CVD and diabetes

Ria Benkő
Clinical Pharmacy Department, University of Szeged, Hungary
Co-chair: Combating antibacterial resistance – a One Health approach
Co-chair: Antimicrobial stewardship interventions

Tanja Mueller
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 
Session: Basic statistical methods – Presenting, visualizing and interpreting drug utilization data using descriptive statistical methods
Session: Early-career researcher event
Co-chair: Implementation of Interventions