Race, ethnic and socioeconomic influences on clinical pharmacology

The 2026 edition explores how race, ethnicity, socioeconomic context, pharmacogenetics, ageing, paediatrics, health insurance and access to medicines can influence medication use, drug response and clinical decision-making.

• Race vs ethnicity and socioeconomic issues
• Polypharmacy and universal health insurance
• Ethnicity factors influencing drug metabolism
• Paediatric and geriatric clinical pharmacology
• Immunopharmacology and access to high-cost drugs
• International Student Poster Competition

Sex, gender and clinical pharmacology across the life course

The 2025 edition focuses on sex and gender differences in drug treatment, including paediatrics, old age, frailty, pregnancy, lactation, real-world evidence and preclinical development.

• Sex and gender differences in drug treatment
• Gender-affirming therapy in paediatrics
• Sex/gender differences in clinical pharmacology
• Old age, sex and frailty in drug development
• Pregnancy and lactation
• Real-world evidence and preclinical development
• Student poster presentations and awards

Learning across paediatric and geriatric clinical pharmacology

The 2024 edition focuses on the importance of considering drug evaluation at the extremes of age, with reflections on paediatric and geriatric populations and the opportunity to learn from each other.

• Drug evaluation at the extremes of age
• Paediatric and geriatric populations
• Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
• Clinical trials
• Pharmacovigilance
• Reflections, questions and answers