SC Side Event to the 24th WIPO SCP, 29 June 2016
Title: Patents and Public Health: Exploring Options for Future Work in the WIPO
Date: 29 June 2016, 13:00-14:45
Venue: WIPO, Room B
Organizer: South Centre
Description:
This panel will explore options for future work in WIPO on patents and public health, in the context of the international patents system and its relation to meeting the public policy objective of ensuring access to medicines for all, in compliance with the WTO-TRIPS Agreement and the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health.
Panel
Chair:
Viviana Muñoz Tellez, South Centre
Speakers:
Chichi Umesi, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN Geneva
Hu Yuan Qiong, Médicins Sans Frontières
Thiru Balasubramaniam, Knowledge Ecology International
K. M. Gopakumar, Third World Network
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This article was tagged: Affordable Medicines, Flexibilities, Health, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Patent, Research and Development (R&D), TRIPS, WIPO, World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
