Our Role

Falsified and substandard medicines are not only a threat to global health but also a threat to international security. Woods International raises public awareness through policy dialogue and coordination.  We also create partnerships for the deployment of programs and technology aimed at eradicating harmful fake drugs.

These public and private collaborations help equip and train regulatory and enforcement bodies with the tools and know-how they need to help save lives. Woods International is building a global coalition made up of:

• Leading Policy Institutions
• International donor agencies and governments
• Health, regulatory, and enforcement bodies within the developing world
• Private sector providers of technology
• The generic and originator pharmaceutical industry
• Public policy institutions
• Non-governmental organizations
  

Contact us if you want to join this effort!

Tom Woods visits Chinese FDA - May 2013

September 1, 2020 Global Steering Committee hosted by World Bank Forms COVAX and Therapeutics Expert Advisory Board for Traceability - Tom Woods Chairs

July 21, 2020 Global Steering Committee for Quality Assurance and Private Sector Advisory Council - World Bank virtual meeting, Tom Woods Chairs 

March 31, 2020 Global Steering Committee for Quality Assurance and Private Sector Advisory Council - World Bank virtual meeting, Tom Woods Chairs

February 17-20, 2020 GS1 Global Forum meets in Brussels, Belgium, Tom Woods to address plenary

October 8, 2019 Global Steering Committee  held at World Bank Offices in Geneva, Switzerland, Tom Woods Chairs

Septeber 17-19, 2019 GS1 Africa Regional Conference Lagos, Nigeria, Tom Woods offersed keynote remarks on behalf of the World Bank

 October 4, 2018, Tom Woods meets with WHO Member State Mechanism Steering Committee, Geneva Switzerland

September 18, 2018, World Bank hosts Global Steering Committee for Quality Assurance, Chaired by Tom Woods

May 2018, Tom Woods participates in GS1 Ethiopia conference on Africa Track and Trace

March 2018, World Bank hosts Global Steering Committee for Quality Assurance, Chaired by Tom Woods

December 2017 Woods chairs World Bank hosted meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the GSC

October 15-16, 2017 GS1 Track and Trace Conference Chicago, Illinois - Woods to speak

September 2017 Woods chairs World Bank hosted meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the GSC

May 2017 Woods chairs World Bank hosted meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the GSC

March 2017 Woods chairs World Bank hosted meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the GSC

December 9, 2016 Woods chairs session on quality assurance for medicines  at World Bank's Law, Justice and Development Legal Week.

December 2, 2016 Tom Woods Chairs World Bank hosted quarterly meeting of the Global Steering Committee

December 1, 2016 Woods chairs World Bank hosted meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the GSC

September 27, 2016 Tom Woods Chairs Inaugural meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council of the Global Steering Committee in Geneva, Switzerland.

June 29, 2016 Tom Woods to Chair Global Steering Committee Quarterly Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

March 30, 2016 Chair Global Steering Committee Quarterly Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

December 2, 2015 Chaired Global Steering Committee Quarterly Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

June 24-25, 2015 Global Steering Committee, The Global Fund, and KPMG host Workshop on Access to Quality Medicines. London, UK.  Tom Woods Chaired.

June 22, 2015, Global Steering Committee Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, Tom Woods represents the Global Fund as Senior Advisor.

September 18, 2014, Innovations at the Global Fund, PMI, and PEPFAR, Washington, DC Capitol Hill.  Tom Woods Chairs Discussion

April 2-4, 2014, The Global Forum on
Access to Safe Medicines - Woods International Co-Directing and Chairing
London Hilton Metropole, London, UK

June 2013, Tom Woods directed senior policy discussions at Wilton Park Conference on Safe Medicines 

November 2012, Tom Woods chairs opening session of the 7th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-counterfeiting, Washington, DC

Watch

Oct 2011, Segment of the Dan Rather Reports season premier focused on counterfeit pharmaceuticals in Africa featuring Tom Woods 

Apr 2010, Video on hand-held Raman technology deployed in Nigeria with help from Woods International

Read

June 24, 2013, "Obama's opportunity to miss an opportunity in Africa" The Washington Times  by Tom Woods

Jul 2012, "The deadly world of fake medicines" in CNN by Roger Bate

Feb 2012, Woods International in the Wall Street Journal

Dec 2010, "Made in India, Faked in China" in The American by Roger Bate and Tom Woods

Recent Impact & Work

In June 2013, Tom Woods directed the senior policy conference on Access to Safe Medicines at the prestigious Wilton Park conference facility in Sussex, England.  The meeting was broadly described as the most diverse gathering of regulators, manufacturers, technology providers, nongovernmental organizations, and academics ever assembled on the topic.

May 2013, Tom Woods visits China to meet with SFDA officials in Beijing as well as provincial level regulators in southern China.

February 14, 2013 in Washington, DC, Woods International participates in the Institute of Medicine Workshop on International Regulatory Harmonization.

February 4, 2013, Woods International supports US Pharmacopeia's Spectral Library Consortium meeting at the USP Headquarters in Rockville, MD.

November 28-29, 2012 in Washington, DC, Woods International Co-convened the 7th Global Forum on Access to Safe Medicines in partnership with UK-based Reconnaissance International.  Tom Woods chaired the opening session.

November 27, 2012 in Washington, Tom Woods will co-chair with Admiral Tim Ziemer of the President's Malaria Initiative a seminar focused on drug resistant disease caused by fake and poor quality medicines.

October 3, 2012 in Washington, Tom Woods delivers remarks at the World Bank concerning technology used to combat SSFFC Health Products.

September, 2012, Tom Woods travels to New Delhi, India to support the Partnership for Safe Medicines technology workshop.

Aug 29, 2011 in New Delhi, Tom Woods explained to the Confederation of Indian Industry how to protect lives and brand India from spurious pharmaceuticals. Woods addressed new India Government regulations on track and trade.

May 4, 2011 in London, Tom Woods co-chaired with Nigeria's Dr. Orhii an invitation-only 

session of drug regulatory bodies from around the world focused on enhancing collaboration for access to quality medicines.

 Apr 2011 in New Delhi, Tom Woods traveled to India to discuss pharmaceutical industry compliance with Indian's Director General of Foreign Trade.

Aug 2010, Woods International traveled to West Africa with Dan Rather to investigate falsified pharmaceuticals first hand (right).

Global problems require global solutions

Spurious, falsified, and substandard pharmaceutical products pose a major threat to global health. The problem is pervasive and impacts every segment of society, especially in the developing world. Resistance building, therapeutic failure, and exposure to toxic ingredients harm millions of people each year; all are direct results of falsified or substandard drug use. Fake medicines for malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis are prevalent throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa, with some estimates placing the incidence of fakes at around 30% of the total pharmaceutical supply.

Apr 2009, Tom Woods joins President's Malaria Initiative head Admiral Tim Ziemer and Former Nigerian Minister of Health Babatunde Osotimehin during World Malaria Day events