International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR): ISPOR is the leading global professional society in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes research Founded in 1995 as an international multidisciplinary professional membership society, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) advances the policy, science, and practice of pharmacoeconomics (health economics) and outcomes research (the scientific discipline that evaluates the effect of health care interventions on patient well-being including clinical, economic, and patient-centered outcomes) www.ispor.org With a 20-year commitment to education, collaboration, and leadership, ISPOR meetings, published resources, and facilitated discussions have evolved as the leading resources for health economics and outcomes research. Moreover, as an unbiased organization of 9,500 individual and student members from 114 countries, and over 8,700 affiliate members from our Regional Chapters www.ispor.org/ Regional Chapters, ISPOR members represent the entire field including research, academia, decision and policy makers, consultants, payers, patient representative groups, and others. ISPOR is a non-profit 501(c) (3) public organization for educational and scientific purposes, as defined by the US IRS.
The Rural Development (RD) sector today faces complex challenges of growth, equity, climate change, and social & economic security of the poor and vulnerable communities. This context has impressed upon the RDprogrammes of government and non-government organizationsa growing need for intervention strategies that are reflective, robustly designed, and implemented through an innovative and adaptive approach. It is clear thatthere is an urgent need to address this capacity building challenge by preparing a cadre of rural professionals who are capable of engaging in the rural development sector specially at the sub-district levels; be it through NGOs, government institutions or as elected representatives of the PRIs and/or cluster level federation leaders.




