Academy Of Pharmaceutical Affairs

Market Access Professional Certification GCC

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Designed for Product Specialists, Medical Representatives and pharmacists

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Next Cohort Starts

January 11, 2025

Your learning journey is extended beyond the course duration

Be ready for KAM assessment

Live online session + Access to Records incase you missed a session

Assignments, quizzes and final certification exam

Individual case study presentation with feedback on future development points

Program Instructor

Dr. Sherif Hammad

  • Assistant Professor- Gulf Medical University-Ajman
  • Senior Manager Market Access and Business Development- Middle East and Africa/ Pharma Solutions LLC
  • Market Access Consultant- Middle East | Laboratories Thea Pharma
  • Head of Market Access – Gulf & Levant | Takeda Pharmaceuticals
  • Pricing Manager – NEMEA (Near East, Middle East and Africa) | Takeda Pharmaceuticals
  • Business Support Manager – Gulf Countries, Levant and Iran | Nycomed GmbH

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Learning outcomes

By the end of the program you will be able to:

Module 1: Healthcare Market Landscape and Introduction to Market Access

  1. Health as a Good
  2. The Goal of Healthcare
  3. Healthcare Market Specifics
  4. Healthcare as a Mixed and Collective Good
  5. Equity in Health and Healthcare
  6. The Goal of Healthcare (emphasizing purpose and outcomes)
  7. Detailed Analysis of Healthcare Market Specifics
  8. Exploration of Healthcare as a Mixed and Collective Good
  9. Equity: Health and Healthcare Access

Module 2: Pharmaceutical Market Access Strategy

  1. Public Health Definition
  2. Decision Making in Public Health
    • Organization of Public Health
    • Funding Health Care and Public Health
    • Criteria for Priority Setting and Decision Making
    • Health Inequalities
    • Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Policies
  3. Reimbursement Decision Making
  4. Methods for Incorporating Societal Preferences into Decision Making
  5. Defining Key Concepts
  6. Relevant Theories and Methods in Healthcare

Module 3: Key Accounts Management

  1. Introduction to Key Accounts
  2. Definitions of Key Accounts
  3. Objectives and Values of Key Accounts
  4. Types of Key Accounts
  5. Benefits and Challenges of Key Accounts
  6. Key Account Process
  7. Developing a Key Account Plan
  8. Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  9. Implementation of the Key Accounts Management Plan

Module 4: Pharmaceutical Marketing and Product Life Cycle Management

  1. The role of marketing in health care organizations
  2. Defining the health care system and its trade-offs
  3. How health care buyers make choices
  4. Market segmentation, targeting, positioning, and competition
  5. The nature of services
  6. Viewing the marketing mix
  7. Managing product lifecycle
  8. Building the brand
  9. Managing the stages of the product life cycle
  10. Marketing channels and value networks

Module 5: Pharmaceutical Pricing

  1. Introduction to Pricing
  2. Pricing Techniques
  3. Reference Pricing Systems in Various Markets
  4. Case Discussion

Module 6: Negotiation Skills

  1. Negotiation Strategy and Principles
  2. Types of Negotiation Techniques (ZOPA, BATNA, SPIN)
  3. Negotiating via Emails and Calls
  4. Negotiation in Market Access

Module 7: Introduction to Health Economics

  1. Pharmacoeconomics—what is it?
  2. Why is pharmacoeconomics important?
  3. Relationship of pharmacoeconomics to other research
  4. Types of pharmacoeconomic studies
  5. Measuring and estimating costs
  6. Health-related quality of life measures versus utility measures
  7. Questions to use when critiquing research articles