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Political economy of medical R&D and access: the case of Covid-19 vaccines

Health, value and commons

Start time:

March 16, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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EDT

Location:

Online

Type:

Other

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Speakers

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Benjamin Coriat

Université Paris 13 Nord

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Els Torreele

IIPP-UCL

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Julia Paranhos

UFRJ

Description

It is widely accepted that combating the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global collaborative effort and knowledge sharing to ease the development and distribution of new health technologies at affordable costs. However, in contrast, the world has witnessed the strengthening of Big Pharma companies together with "vaccine nationalism". While the rents of a few big pharmaceutical conglomerates are increasing in part due to appropriation of research and development results from public Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) systems, the competition among countries to secure doses (sometimes exceeding many-fold the size of their populations) is leading to an increase in prices and global inequality in the distribution of vaccines, preventing developing countries from acquiring them.

This is not the first pandemic and reminds us of the struggle for HIV/AIDS treatment equality. In fact, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global health landscape confronted inequity and discrimination regarding pharmaceutical technologies' development, production and distribution. However, the pandemic has once again brought visibility of this divide to the forefront. The geographical distribution and vaccination rate highlights the wide gap between the haves and the have-nots of the modern world.

Addressing these issues of geopolitical and geo-economics context, transparency in R&D, and vaccine pricing, three leading researchers will share their understanding on a topic that wields consequences for countless lives around the world.

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Attendees

Dario Vazquez

Jana Rué Glutting

Cecilia Seri

Christopher Pomwene Shafuda

Simon Beck

Aldana Gonzalez Passetti

Hyojung Sun

ignacio cretini

Sara Costa

Çağdaş Yalçınkaya

Cecilia Rikap

Jaehee Choi

Felipe Kamia

Caleb Adelowo

Étienne Desfossés

Federico Suarez

Venkat Nadella

Maria Carolina Foss

Samuel Nutt

Dilara Demir

Laís Fernanda S. Souza

Fernanda Steiner Perin

Bryan Joseph Ortiz

Victor Roy

Yeshwant P

Rok Piletic

Mridhula Mohan

Sauman Singh

Juan José Pita

Tatiana Fleming

Sujay Simha Sairam

Nicolás Aguila

Bruno Cunha

Esra Ugurlu

Desa Berisha

Ernesto Nieto Carrillo

Carl Henning Reschke

Fabrizio Chiodo

Federico Piñeiro

Tridip Borah

Marc Jacquinet

Michael Cosh

Meena Tafazzoli

Rosangela Pinto

ASHISH GOSAIN

Kirti Tyagi

Manoj Sasikumar

Bernardo Cabral

Mathieu Quet

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Daniel Fullman

Flávia Appel Colvero

Lorenzo Cresti

Sanghamitra Chakravarty

May Salao

Ana Paula Tavares

DENÄ°Z OKTAY

Jian Condori

J.Christopher Proctor

Luciana Lenhari

Mariana Finello Corrêa

Raul de Arriba

Sattwick Dey Biswas

Mustafa YAGCI

Vivian de Oliveira

Zach Kopelman

Ezequiel Palomeque

Verónica Robert

Michelle Defina

Bismarck Javier Arevilca Vasquez

Reda Elasli

Michael Samaras

Federico Jelinski

Sylvain Giraud

Kieran Kleman

Marina Dorfmuller Ciampi

Rafael da Rosa

Christian Francese

Gisele Bilañski

Rosie Collington

Rodrigo Volmir Anderle

Amit Chandra

Fernando Vargas Cuevas

Nicole Ayub

Giovanna Mussili

Sandeep Kanaujia

Adriana Mendoza-Ruiz

Nofel Asswiel

Daniela Falcão

Boris Azais

Mariana Vaz

Cristina G. Flores

Libero Maesano

Christina Mosalagae

Niklas Palm

Vincent Okungu

Alila Brossard Antonielli

Elise Rodriguez

Andrea Laplane

Igor Bueno

Isabella Vanorio

Ana Ramos

Maria Christina Vilar Torres

Maria Mata

Niko Adesso

Diana Szántó

Sangeet Jain

Lorenzo Cassini

Janaina Pamplona da Costa

Aiste Irzikeviciute

Bruno Perez Almansi