The Importance of Scientific Plant Names in Herbal Pharmacovigilance

Speaker: Bob Alkin (Uppsala Pharmacovigilance training course 2016)

Since his PhD at Natural History in London, Dr Bob Allkin has worked with computer scientists to manage information about plants. Identification software, plant chemistry and plant use databases and as well as the University of Southampton and Kew, he has worked extensively in Latin America especially Mexico and Brazil.

He lived in North East Brazil for 6 years leading a rural development project collating relevant information about the use and management of local plants and creating a network of NGO’s and community groups disseminating that knowledge to rural communities.

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What a clever interesting man, who explains so well the beautiful plants we share our planet with.