Drug Development Policy

Research Assistant Position: costs of trade and regulatory barriers to access to medicines

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Call for Applications: Research Assistant: costs of trade and regulatory barriers to access to medicines Description:   Global Access in Action (GAiA) is a dynamic global health non-profit organization that focuses on improving access to lifesaving medicines in vulnerable populations through the implementation of legal, policy, and regulatory reform. We work with key domestic and international […]

Drug Development Policy

At the Mercy of a Few: Patents, Market Concentration and Global Access to Medicines

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Market concentration in high-technology industries has become a subject of interest to scholars and policy analysts. This talk presents some of the first empirical results on how the patenting system contributes to market concentration in the pharma and chemical sectors globally. Please RSVP  Thursday February 21, 2019 at noon Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall Room […]

Events

Upcoming Panel: Substandard and Counterfeit Medicines in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective

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Marking 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Join Global Access in Action on the International Human Rights Day Celebration to discuss how to improve access to medicines in Africa. Panelists: Ashveena Gajeelee (GAiA); Bright Simons (Founder mPedigree); Rick Wolthusen (Co-founder On the Move e.V; and Helen Tesfaye (HSPH). Date: December 10, 2018 […]

Digital Health @ Harvard

Digital Health @ Harvard, November 27 : Computer Simulations to Enhance Vaccine Trials

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November 27, 2018 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Video and Podcast of the event (courtesy of Berkman Klein Center). Infectious disease emergencies are opportunities to test the efficacy of newly developed interventions—for example, drugs, vaccines, and treatment regimens. Yet they raise many intertwined challenges […]

Pandemic Preparedness

Achieving Equitable Access to Vaccines: From Policies to Provisions

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Speaker: Julia Barnes-Weise, Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator Moderator: Ashveena Gajeelee On October 17, 2018, Julia Barnes-Weise, Executive Director of the Global Healthcare Innovation Alliances Accelerator (GHIAA)) a non-profit organization spun out of a program in Public Policy at Duke University, and a Senior Consultant to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations […]