Australia’s GBMA Aims To Educate With ‘Biosimilar Week’

Australia’s GBMA industry association will seek to promote biosimilars through a dedicated ‘Biosimilar Week’ in late April and early May this year, running as part of a three-year education program being pursued by the association and industry stakeholders.

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The GBMA Is Hoping To Reach A Larger Crowd With Its Education Efforts • Source: Shutterstock

A week-long campaign to “focus on the role of biosimilars in supporting a sustainable healthcare system” has been launched by Australia’s Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (GBMA), to run from 29 April to 3 May this year.

Developed “collaboratively, by representatives across medical specialities, government health experts and the medicines industry”, Biosimilar Week will begin with an official announcement from Australian health minister Greg Hunt, “highlighting the critical role that

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