[Ip-health] Papers from December 4, Columbia R&D workshop

[James Love]

The December 4, 2003 workshop at Columbia on R&D was very well attended,
and in my opinion it went quite well.  At the conclusion, Jeff Sachs
announced there would be a two day follow up event on May 21-22.   Most
of the papers from the December 4 event are on the web here:

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/accesstomedicines_papers.html
Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Health Care

     Hosted by
The Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
     and the
Consumer Project on Technology, Washington D.C.

December 4th, 2003

569 Lerner Hall, Columbia University

Can we promote "access for medicines" to all, and finance faster, more
appropriate innovation in health care?

8:45 to 9:00  Welcome and Introductions

     Jeffrey Sachs

9:00 to 10:00  Proposals to Address Market Failures in R&D I

     Richard Nelson, Moderator

     Henry Grabowski, "Innovation and R&D Incentives for Orphan Drugs
and Neglected Diseases"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/grabowski.ppt

     James Love, "A New Global Framework for Funding R&D" (PDF)   (PPT
presentation)
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/love_000.pdf
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/love.ppt

     Discussion

10:15 to 11:15  Proposals to Address Market Failures in R&D II

     Will Masters, Moderator

     Tim Hubbard, "Four Alternatives to the Price System"

     Jerome Reichman and Tracy Lewis, "Liability Rules and R&D Investment"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/lewisreichman.pdf
     Discussion

11:15 to 12:30  Discussion of Current Proposals: Clarification and Reactions

     Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Moderator

     Bruce Lehman, "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Patent System"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/lehman.pdf
     Spring Gombe, "Good Money After Bad: Access to Health and Financing
R&D"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/gombe.ppt
     Brandon Lerch

     Discussion

12:30 to 1:30  Lunch Break

1:30 to 2:30  Costs of Patent Protection and Benefits of Innovation

     Juan Rovira, Moderator

     Frank Lichtenberg, "The Economic Benefits of Medical Innovation"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/lichtenberg.ppt
     Andrew Farlow, "Costs of Monopoly Pricing Under Patent Protection"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/farlow.ppt
     Shubham Chaudhuri, "Estimating the Effects of TRIPS in India"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/chaudhuri1.pdf
     Discussion

2:30 to 3:30  R&D As a Global Good

     James Orbinski, Moderator

     Robert Weissman, "R&D in International Treaties"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/weissman.ppt
     Nicoletta Dentico, "Lessons from the Tobacco Control and Landmine
Conventions"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/dentico.ppt
     Amy Kapczynski, "Best Practices for Management of Publicly Funded R&D"
     http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/cgsd/documents/kapczynski.ppt

     Discussion

4:00 to 5:00  Open Discussion: Priority-setting for Analysis and Advocacy

     Richard Nelson and James Love, Moderators

5:00 to 5:30  Wrap-up: Where Do We Go From Here?

     Jeffrey Sachs




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