Ahead of the 74th World Health Assembly, Health Action International, Knowledge Ecology International, and Medicines Law & Policy will be co-hosting a discussion with a high-level panel on what a pandemic response treaty should say about the sharing of rights in inventions and data, and access to know-how and biological resources, including rights in government funded research, to scale up vaccine production to meet the global need.
Date: Friday 21 May 2021
Time: 1400 – 1530 CEST
Where: Zoom
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1vQq3hepS2aZuu1OywEkaw
Moderator:
- Dr Ellen ‘t Hoen, Director, Medicines Law & Policy
Keynote:
- RT Hon. Helen Clark
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand and
Co-chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness Response (IPPPR)
Confirmed Speakers:
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAIDS
- H.E. Catalina Devandas, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations
- Dr. Anban Pillay, Deputy Director General, Health Regulation and Compliance, National Department of Health, South Africa
- Dr. Philippe Duneton, Executive Director, Unitaid
- Dr. Martin Friede, Coordinator, Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR) Immunization, Vaccines and Biologics (IVB), World Health Organization
Respondents:
- Luis Villarroel (Innovarte)
- James Love (KEI)
- Jaume Vidal (HAI)
- Anna Marriott (Oxfam)