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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
EDT
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
Speakers
Benjamin Coriat
Université Paris 13 Nord
Els Torreele
IIPP-UCL
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.
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Attendees
Dario Vazquez
Jana Rué Glutting
Cecilia Seri
Christopher Pomwene Shafuda
Simon Beck
Aldana Gonzalez Passetti
Hyojung Sun
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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
LaÃs 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