Unlocking the mRNA Platform Technology: Walking the Talk with Investment Protection
Recent articles emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance.
Global Health & Human Rights
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Read more: Decriminalizing Abortion in Argentina: 8 Takeaways from the Inflection Point of Legalization Decriminalizing Abortion in Argentina: 8 Takeaways from the Inflection Point of Legalization
The Argentine experience offers insights to consider for countries at different stages of abortion struggles.
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Read more: Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
RecordingEvent Description As one of the largest economic sectors globally, health care represents nearly 10% of GDP spending across O.E.C.D. countries. This significant activity produces an estimated 5-10% of global greenhouse gases, presenting opportunities to directly reduce this impact through changes to energy supply, waste, purchasing, and care models. Equally important, health care has a…
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Read more: Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started? Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?
Debating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is a fool’s errand. Considering laboratory accidents writ large, however, is important.
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Read more: Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity? Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?
If pharma giants truly are committed to addressing vaccine inequity, just building manufacturing capacity in Africa might not be enough.
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Read more: Sutures for Ukraine: The Medical Case for City Diplomacy Sutures for Ukraine: The Medical Case for City Diplomacy
In parallel to official channels of federal aid, American cities can play a decisive role in supporting their Ukrainian counterparts under threat.
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Read more: The Secret World of mRNA: HDT Bio Corp v. Emcure and Access to Next-Gen mRNA The Secret World of mRNA: HDT Bio Corp v. Emcure and Access to Next-Gen mRNA
The future of public health in an “RNA world” is on trial in a trade secrecy dispute worth $950 million.
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Read more: Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’ Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’
The Truth Pill is a monumental work that convincingly shows that drug regulation is but a myth in India.
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Read more: Grassroots Mobilization Needed to Defend Abortion Access Grassroots Mobilization Needed to Defend Abortion Access
Strict, early measures did not lead to better control of the disease, in comparison to other countries in the region.
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Read more: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice in Latin America: Recent Landmark Decisions from Mexico and Colombia Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice in Latin America: Recent Landmark Decisions from Mexico and Colombia
RecordingEvent Description As the U.S. Supreme Court reversed half a century of jurisprudence in Dobbs, rejecting a fundamental right to abortion, courts across Latin America have made progress in the opposite direction. A so-called “Green Wave” has swept across some of the most populous countries in a region that was formerly known for having the…
