[Ip-health] WHO Public hearing

[Daumerie, Denis Paul Jacques]

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WHO's Second Public Hearing on Public Health Innovation and Intellectual
Property
Leading up to the second Intergovernmental Working Group on Public
Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG), on 5-10 November
2007, WHO has set up a second web-based public hearing. Individuals,
civil society groups, government institutions, academic and research
institutions, the private sector and other interested parties are
invited to contribute to the open hearing between 15 August and 30
September 2007.
The WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and
Public Health
<http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/documents/thereport/en/index.ht
ml>  concluded its report in April 2006. Its recommendations were
considered by the Fifty-ninth World Health Assembly which adopted
Resolution WHA59.24
<http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA59/A59_R24-en.pdf> : "Public
health, innovation, essential health research and intellectual property
rights: towards a global strategy and plan of action".
Resolution WHA59.24 requested the Director-General of WHO to convene an
Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG
<http://www.who.int/gb/phi/E/index_E.html> ) open to all interested
Member States to draw up a global strategy and plan of action aimed at,
inter alia, securing an enhanced and sustainable basis for needs-driven,
essential health research and development relevant to diseases that
disproportionately affect developing countries; and submit this to the
Sixty-first World Health Assembly in May 2008.
The second public hearing is divided into two sections.
Section 1 is dedicated to comments and inputs to the recently released
draft Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation
and Intellectual Property,A/PHI/IGWG/2/2
<http://www.who.int/gb/phi/pdf/igwg2/PHI_IGWG2_2-en.pdf> . This
document, which will form the basis for negotiations during the second
IGWG is based on the recommendations of the CIPIH report, relevant WHA
resolutions, outputs from the first IGWG session, and follow-up
submissions from Member States.
Section 2 relates specifically to the World Health Assembly Resolution
WHA60.30 <http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA60/A60_R30-en.pdf> ,
which requested the Director General "to encourage the development of
proposals for health-needs driven research and development for
discussion at the Intergovernmental Working Group that includes a range
of incentive mechanisms including also addressing the linkage between
the cost of research and development and the price of medicines,
vaccines, diagnostic kits and other health-care products and a method
for tailoring the optimal mix of incentives to a particular condition or
product, with the objective of addressing diseases that
disproportionately affect developing countries."
Contributors are invited to provide submissions to one of the two
sections or to both.
:: Submissions to Section 1 - Draft Global Strategy and Plan of Action
<http://www.who.int/entity/phi/public_hearings/second/submission_section
1/en/index.html>

:: Submissions to Section 2 - Proposals in Response to Resolution
WHA60.30
<http://www.who.int/entity/phi/public_hearings/second/submission_section
2/en/index.html>