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… Continue Reading
On 4 December 2020, Ethiopia submitted a Zero Draft resolution to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Strengthening Local Production of Medicines and Other Health Technologies to Improve Access – WHO Resolution on Strengthening Local Production of Medicines and Other… Continue Reading
Negotiating texts for WHA 74 on local production. 4 December 2020. Concept Note (Text prepared by Ethiopia) Zero Draft resolution on Strengthening Local Production of Medicines and Other Health Technologies to Improve Access, Dec 04,2020 – WHO Resolution on Strengthening… Continue Reading
KEI submissions to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) 14 January 2013, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), the University of California (San Francisco), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), Third World Network (TWN) and Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network:… Continue Reading
On Wednesday 20th January 2020, at the 148th session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board, the issue of financing and implementation of programme budget 2020-2021, the draft proposed for programme budget 2022-2023 and the issue of sustainable financing… Continue Reading
KEI research associate Paul Miano has written the following paper: Cancer: Approval, ownership, market structure, and placement on WHO Model Essential Medicines List, for 100 new molecular entities (NMEs) on the NCI alpha list of cancer drugs and vaccines. KEI Research Note 2011:1,
A full copy of the paper is available in PDF format here.
The following is from the introduction (sans footnotes, which are in the PDF version):
https://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/b_b_igwg/working_document_barbados_bolivia.pdf April 2008 According to resolution WHA60.30 on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, the Director-General of the WHO is asked: (4) to encourage the development of proposals for health-needs driven research and development for discussion at the Intergovernmental Working… Continue Reading
March 2, 2007 Secretary of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines (2007)Department of Medicines Policy and Standards (PSM)Health Technology & PharmaceuticalsWorld Health OrganizationCH-1211 Geneva 27Switzerland Via e-mail: emisecretariat@who.int RE: Request for changes in the WHO Model… Continue Reading