?Bahrain Olympic Committee’s Anti-Doping Committee chairman Dr Hussain Al Haddad will be attending two anti-doping related events in Tokyo this week.
Al Haddad will first be involved at the Second International Conference on the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Fight against Doping ‘New Developments for Clean Sport and Society’ today (Wednesday, January 28).
He will then be present at the 2015 International Anti-Doping Seminar taking place tomorrow (Thursday).
Representatives from across the pharmaceutical and anti-doping communities will explore ways to help protect the rights of clean athletes and to restrict the abuse of licensed and unlicensed medicines.
The conference is co-hosted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japanese Government (MEXT), the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) and UNESCO and will include discussions on a number of topics.
Themes include societal and economic risks of doping, challenges in anti-doping and the role of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, collaborative perspectives for the Biopharmaceutical Industry and anti-doping authorities in the future.
