[Ip-health] CPTech Brown Bag Seminar: Ellen 't Hoen on the WHO resolution on a global framework for health R&D (April 18, 2006)

[Joy Spencer]

The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a seminar by
Ellen 't Hoen (MSF) on the "WHO debate on the executive board resolution
EB117.R13 on a Global Framework for Essential Health R&D ".

Date: Tuesday April 18, 2006
Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm
Venue: 1621 Connecticut Avenue Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009

Ellen 't Hoen will address the implications of the CIPIH report and the
R&D proposal that will debated at the World Health Assembly.

Ellen =91t Hoen has been the director policy advocacy of the Campaign for
Access to Essential Medicines of /M=E9decins sans Fronti=E8res/ (MSF) since
1999. In 1981 she co-founded /DES-Action/ in the Netherlands. In 1990
she joined the consumer network /Health Action International/ to head
the policy and campaigns unit and from 1996 until 1999 she was the
international coordinator of the independent medicines journal /La revue
Prescrire/Prescrire International/ and the /International Society of
Drug Bulletins (ISDB)/.

She is an expert in medicines policy and intellectual property law and
has been a consultant to a number of countries and international
organisations. She is a also a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel
on Drugs Policies and Management.

Upcoming brown bags:

April 25 - Aidan Hollis: Uses of Prizes for Drug Development
May 10 - Kevin Outterson: Patent Buy-Outs for Global Disease Innovation

I am currently just taking RSVPs for the April 18, Ellen 't Hoen event
(official announcements of the other brown bags will follow shortly) so
if you would like to join us please RSVP your name, title, organization
and contact details to: joy.spencer@cptech.org or 202.332.2670 (t)