SC WTO Public Forum Event, 2 October 2018
Title: Intellectual Property and Health: The Use of TRIPS Flexibilities to Achieve SDGs
Date and Time: 2 October 2018, 11:30-13:00
Venue: Room S1, The World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Organizer: The South Centre
Description:
This session explores the links between intellectual property, trade and the achievement of the human right to health. Particularly, it aims at discussing how the full use of TRIPS flexibilities to protect public health and provide access to medicines for all (as set by SDG 3.b) contributes to a trade framework favourable to sustainable development and innovation. By sharing concrete experiences from around the world, empirical findings and the normative grounds of TRIPS in relation to both development and human rights, including the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, the session will delineate how to adequately balance “wealth and health” in an inclusive, sustainable, and equitable manner for all countries and peoples.
Panellists:
- Carlos Maria Correa, Executive Director, South Centre
- Evandro Didonet, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and Other Economic Organizations in Geneva
- S. Deepak, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organization
- Xiangchen Zhang, Permanent Representative and Ambassador of China to the World Trade Organization
- Mariangela Batista Galvão Simão, Assistant Director-General at the World Health Organization
Moderator:
This article was tagged: Access to Medicines, Health, Human Rights, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Public Health, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Trade, TRIPS, World Trade Organization (WTO), WTO
