About
We created a database of the essential medicines lists for 137 countries by searching the World Health Organization’s National Essential Medicines Lists Repository in June of 2017 and manually abstracting information about which medicines were included in each list. More than 2000 unique medicines are listed. This information about 137 national essential medicines lists is intended to facilitate sharing and decision-making capacity globally and also identify opportunities for improving essential medicines lists. Errors may have been introduced and we hope that users of this site will help keep it accurate and up to date by suggesting changes.
Publications
Persaud et al, “Comparison of essential medicines lists in 137 countries” WHO Bulletin. 2019 [link to paper once published]
Team
The work was done by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the WHO and researchers at the University of Oxford.
Nav Persaud, Maggie Jiang, Roha Shaikh, Anjli Bali, Efosa Oronsaye, Hannah Woods, Gregory Drozdzal, Yathavan Rajakulasingam, Darshanand Maraj, Sapna Wadhawan, Norman Umali & Ri Wang
Lorenzo Moja & Nicola Magrini
Marcy McCall, Jeffrey K Aronson, Annette Plüddemann & Carl Heneghan
Funding
This work was funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Support Unit and the St Michael’s Hospital Foundation
