[Ip-health] Updated Agenda- CI/CPTech workshop: Intellectual Property Aspects relevant to the preparation for a possible avian flu pandemic

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

This is an open public meeting, but please let us know if you want to
attend, by RSVP to thiru@cptech.org.


Workshop on Intellectual Property Aspects relevant to the preparation
for a possible avian flu pandemic

Sponsored by Consumers International and Consumer Project on Technology
(CPTech)

November 9, 2005
Venue: MSF Geneva office, 78, rue de Lausanne, Geneva

9:00  Introduction, James Love, CPTech

Panel 1             9:15  to 10:45

           Moderator, Thiru Balasubramaniam, Consumer Project on
Technology (CPTech)

Michael Purdue,  World Health Organization (WHO)
  Public Health Impact of Avian Flu Pandemic

Roger Kampf, World Trade Organization (WTO)
  WTO (TRIPS mechanisms that are relevant to the preparation for a
  possible avian pandemic)

Carsten Fink, World Bank
  Issues relating to drug registration data
  Economics of Procurement of Stockpiles

William Haddad, Cipla
  Views from a Generic Manufacturer

Respondent
  Jennifer Brant, Oxfam

Panel 2        11:15 to 1 pm

           Moderator, Julia Oliva, The Center for International
Environmental Law (CIEL)

Sangeeta Shashikant, Third World Network (TWN)
  30 August 2003 WTO Decision, and assertions of IPR for health
  registration data

Ellen 't Hoen, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
  Access to medicine in developing countries

James Love, Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)
  Proposal for stockpiling generic medicines
  Impact of "opt-out" provisions

Antony Taubman, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  Management of Patent Information

Respondents
  Sisule Munsungu, South Centre
  Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)