[Ip-health] Philadelphia Consensus Statement - developments

[Caroline Gallant]

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On November 14th, Universities Allied for Essential Medicine released
with great success the Philadelphia Consensus Statement On University
Policies for Health-Related Innovations.  A list of press coverage is
summarized in this email.

To sign-on the statement, or for more information, please visit the
website http://consensus.essentialmedicine.org

The Statement was also submitted to the WHO Intergovernmental Working
Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
(http://www.who.int/public_hearing_phi/en/).

Stay tuned for further developments in bringing policy recommendations
into action.


For PRESS COVERAGE, see below:

Universities urged: =92share benefits of health research=92 - SciDev.Net.
Eva Tallaksen, 17 November 2006.
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?
fuseaction=3Dreadnews&itemid=3D3232&language=3D1
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It is unique in seeking to spur universities, rather than companies or
governments, into taking action, says Dave Chokshi, a medical student
at the US-based University of Pennsylvania.
"Universities respond to a different set of incentives than other
institutions and therefore we believe our approach is novel and
promising," says Chokshi, who is a member of the Universities Allied
for Essential Medicines, a student group active at over 30
universities, which led the initiative.
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Universities=92 drug discoveries must aid poor countries, student group
says - British Medical Journal, Janice Hopkins Tanne. 2006; 333: 1090
(25 November 2006).
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7578/1090-b

Students: Drug access for poor - Philadelphia Inquirer  A network of
activists wants changes in the way universities license their
discoveries to companies. By Thomas Ginsberg, Inquirer Staff Writer,
(17 November 2006)
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/16032404.htm

Universities urged to do more for poor nations - Nature,  Erika Check.
444, 412-413 (23 November 2006).
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7118/full/444412b.html

The TIME Global Health Blog - From University Labs to the Developing
World - TIME.com.  Christine Gorman, (14 November 2006).
http://time.blogs.com/global_health/2006/11/essentialmedici.html

UAEM Calls for Reform in Biomedical Research Policies - Global Health
Council News (14 November  2006).
http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/8181

Inside Views: A Call To Universities To Help Increase Global Medicines
Access - IP-Watch Inside Views, Rodrigo Cerd=E1, (November 15, 2006).
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=3D457&res=3D1440_ff&print=3D0

Turning the Tide with Global Medicine - NextGenMD, (November 2006).
http://www.nextgenmd.org/vol3-2/global_medicine.html

Research for $ale: A New Deal On Lifesaving Drugs - Harvard Crimson,
Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Daniel J. T. Schuker, (November 13, 2006).
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=3D515702

Universities Must Democratize Access to Key Drugs -  Yale Daily News,
Patrick Toomey and Sara Crager. Yale Daily News, (4 October 2006).
http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=3D33549
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