The European Medicines Agency (EMA) collaborates with a large number of patients, consumers and their organisations on aspects such as information on medicines, consultation on product-specific issues and participation in workshops and meetings. These patient and consumer experts provide the Agency with up-to-date, real life experience of living with a disease or the use of medicines, and in turn they can be directly involved in regulatory discussions on medicines for use in the EU.
Identifying the right person for each of the activities requires the use of a database; therefore, the EMA is expanding its internal database of stakeholders, which currently contains information on organisations, to also include individuals and their areas of interest across Agency activities.
The individual experts’ stakeholder database’s main purpose is to identify patients and consumers to participate in activities of the EMA. In addition, those registering will receive information in their area of interest. By maintaining a database with patients interested in participating in EMA activities representing different indications, the EMA hopes to increase further involvement of patients and consumers in its activities, which is consistent with the transparency practices of the EMA with respect to its decisions.
In order to register to be included in the database, please click here and fill the application form. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement followed by a confirmation email once validated.
Questions and answers – EMA individual experts’ stakeholder database: patients and consumers are also available.