First EFIC® Symposium Societal Impact of Pain - SIP

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Barbara Milani
Barbara Milani
Technical Officer Access to Controlled Medications
Programme
Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical
Policies
World Health Organization
Geneva
Barbara Milani holds a Masters degree in Pharmaceutical
Chemistry and Technology from
the University of Ferrara in Italy and a post
graduate Diploma in Tropical medicine from
the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Prince
Leopold" in Belgium. For the past 10 years she
has been working in the area of public health
in different capacities ranging from serving as
a front-line pharmacist to advising on procurement
and supply systems to contributing to
essential medicines policy development and implementation.
She has gained her international
expertise working in Africa with NGOs including
Médicins Sans Frontières and later with The
Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria and the World Health Organization
(WHO).
In her current role with the WHO Access to
Controlled Medications Programme she is
technically responsible for managing the development
of WHO's treatment guidelines on
pain.
Barbara Milani has recently presented at the
International Association for Hospice and Palliative
Care workshop on access to opioids in
Latin America in Lima, Peru and served as an
organizer and facilitator of the WHO guidelines
development meeting on paediatric persisting
pain, Rockefeller Conference Center, Bellagio,
Italy.