[Ip-health] Mark your agendas: CPTech Brown Bag Lunch: Noah Novogrodsky on Compulsory Licensing

[Judit Rius Sanjuan]

Blog:
http://www.cptech.org/blogs/staff/2006/10/cptech-brownbag-lunch-november-7-=
2006.html


The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a seminar by
Professor Noah Novogrodsky.

Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: 1621 Connecticut Avenue Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009

Professor Noah Novogrodsky will present on "Compulsory Licensing in
Ghana - the Continuing Barriers to Affordable Medicines". His
presentation will describe the painfully slow effort to implement the
WTO August 30th 2003 Decision through Canadian export legislation and
Ghana's Patent Act.

Professor Novogrodsky is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown
University Law Center and the Director of the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law International Human Rights Program. Noah Novogrodsky
joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2002 and in September
2003, he founded Canada's first international human rights clinic at the
Faculty. For each of the past three years, Professor Novogrodsky has
taught a seminar titled =93The HIV/AIDS in Africa Project=94 in connection
with the work of Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General=92s Special Envoy
on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Professor Novogrodsky has also been an organizer
of the University of Toronto-based Access to Drugs Initiative. Professor
Novogrodsky=92s current research agenda focuses on the HIV/AIDS pandemic
as a threat to human security.

To RSVP or more information contact Judit at judit.rius (at) cptech.org
or at +1 202 332 2670

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Judit Rius Sanjuan
judit.rius at cptech.org
www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
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