Prizes and Parasites
One subject attracting a great deal of attention this week at the IGWG meeting in Geneva is that of prizes as an alternative incentive approach for neglected disease R&D, with multiple different examples of prize proposals on the table. In following the negotiations, it has been have noted that there have been […]

The post title and the text have been updated to reflect that the category BIO was in also included invited entities, another special category included with the experts.
Suerie Moon, a Harvard UAEMer, in Geneva with MSF this week, has compiled information on the IGWG delegations.
You’ll note that 18% of “experts” are from BIO, including Janna […]

April 28, 2008
Contact: Ethan Guillen, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
ethan.guillen@essentialmedicine.org
Eminent Academics: IGWG Delegates Should Explore New Mechanisms to Correct Current Deficiencies in Medicine System
Today eminent academics including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Sir John Sulston and Dr. Jim Kim of Partners in Health and Harvard University called on World Health Organization delegates to the Intergovernmental […]

This morning, the World Health Organization Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG) resumed its negotiations in Geneva. UAEM is represented by Ethan Guillen, Executive Director, and Sara Crager, a UAEM member and MD/PhD from Yale University. Throughout the week we will be posting regarding the goings on.
The IGWG […]