Drugs and sustainable development

wfarm1375  2024-2025  Bruxelles Woluwe

Drugs and sustainable development
2.00 credits
10.0 h + 20.0 h
Q2

  This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!

Language
French
Content
This course addresses the impact of drugs on sustainability, considering the processes of drug discovery and development, their production, and their use. The main chapters are:
- Introduction to the concept and objectives of sustainable development and transition
- “One health” concept (human, animal and environmental health)
- Impact of chemistry (synthesis, purification of natural products, analysis)
- Impact of the drug formulation
- Impact of preclinical and clinical development (in vitro, animal studies, clinical studies)
- Reasoned use of drugs (over or under consumption, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases)
- Environmental cost of drug distribution and transportation
- Management of waste, residues and packaging (including waste from hospitals and laboratories);
- Impact of the delivery and use of drugs on the environment (in particular the physiological elimination of drugs or their metabolites by the body).
- Prices and access to medicines (including for rare diseases); notions of health economics
Teaching methods
Interactive lectures, including cases analysis
Evaluation methods
Evaluation of theorical concepts by written exam
Evaluation of an oral presentation given by a group of students on thema related to the content of the lectures
Teaching materials
  • PDF des slides sur moodle.
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Biomedicine

Master [60] in Biomedicine

Bachelor in Pharmacy

Additionnal module in Pharmacy