USP Strategic Plan

The current USP Strategic Plan was thoughtfully crafted by USP’s leadership, and is based on the following five key components which provide the foundation for USP’s work.

• Expand and enhance USP’s core compendial activities—the provision of documentary standards and reference materials Read More
  

  To increase the availability of public standards that will help ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines and the quality, safety and, where appropriate, benefit of foods, USP will:

  • Create comprehensive, relevant and timely documentary standards for medicines, dietary supplements and corresponding traditional medicines, food ingredients and other articles, revising these standards as necessary to account for new products and ingredients, new analytical procedures and methods, and new opportunities arising from the advance of science.
  • Develop and maintain the quality and availability of reference materials that support new and revised documentary standards based on advances in measurement science.
• Build and strengthen USP’s allied compendial programs—programs that promote development of and access to high quality medicines and food and build upon USP’s core compendial activities Read More
  

  To promote the effective use of quality public standards worldwide and encourage compliance with such standards, USP will:

  • Develop, strengthen and deliver relevant and timely pharmacopeial education programs that assist manufacturers, compounding professionals, practitioners, regulators, patients and consumers in understanding and implementing USP standards.
  • Establish and expand verification programs that will provide assurance to manufacturers, regulators, practitioners, patients and consumers that products and ingredients consistently meet optimal quality standards.
  • Provide technical assistance, training and other programs in developing countries to help improve the development, registration, and utilization of medicines and foods and their ingredients in such regions.
  • Support anti-counterfeiting programs and other efforts that help ensure the quality, safety and benefit of medicines and foods in commerce in the United States and in other countries around the world.
• Engage in other programs that leverage USP’s unique capabilities to fulfill the public health needs of its constituencies and support USP’s vision and objectives Read More
  
  For USP to have the greatest public health impact, its compendial programs and services must take priority and receive the resources needed to achieve their purpose and potential.  To complement these programs and services and further advance USP’s vision, USP will:

  • Monitor advances in science and technology and other changes in the healthcare environment;
  • Engage continuously with stakeholders in order to identify unmet public health needs where USP can make an important contribution.
  • Leverage USP’s unique strengths and capabilities to respond to needs of USP’s constituencies.
  • Undertake activities outside the compendial area that are expected to have a strong public health impact and are synergistic with compendial programs and services.
• Operate both nationally and internationally to help improve the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods worldwide Read More
  
  To fulfill its commitment to improving quality worldwide, USP will:

  • Seek ways to work effectively throughout the world while maintaining its relevance and importance to, and fulfilling its historical role and responsibility in, the United States.
  • Partner in a collaborative spirit with industry, pharmacopeias, regulators, practitioners, patients and consumers in the United States and abroad to help accelerate the mutual development of public standards, build and strengthen local capabilities and infrastructure, and improve the quality of products used domestically and exported.
  • Seek opportunities to customize and deliver its compendial programs and services to best meet the needs of individual countries and regions, focusing in particular on developing countries where local resources and capabilities are most constrained.
  • Establish facilities and sites in other countries and regions as appropriate to expand USP’s presence and enable it to work more closely and effectively with key stakeholders in such countries and regions to improve the quality of medicines and foods.
  • Build and expand relationships with domestic and international organizations and other stakeholders to identify potential areas of collaboration to further shared public health goals.
• Manage all USP's programs, products, and services efficiently and effectively to maximize their impact Read More
  
  To ensure that USP’s programs successfully fulfill their important public health goals and at the same time assure the organization’s sustainability, USP will:

  • Ensure that its core compendial activities continue to be self-sustaining, reinvesting in such activities where necessary to strengthen and expand them to achieve the greatest public health benefit.
  • Invest in allied compendial programs, recognizing their value in promoting the use of public standards to improve the quality, safety and benefit of medicines and foods, while seeking grants and other third-party funding to allow expansion of such programs domestically and in developing countries.
  • Engage in programs outside of the compendial area that are self-sustaining or fully supported by independent sources of revenue consistent with USP’s mission and vision.
  • Engage in fiscally responsible decision-making consistent with USP’s existing financial commitments, investment policies, and budgetary goals.

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