[Ip-health] Workshop: The Process and Impact of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property

[Karsten Gerloff]

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Dear all,

please take note of the following event. Registration is required,
but there is no fee to participate.

> The Maastricht University Faculty of Law and the Stockholm
> Network Intellectual Property & Competition Programme are
> delighted to invite you to a forum and debate on The Process
> and Impact of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on
> Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property.
>
> Date: Tuesday 15 April 2008
>
> Time: 09:00 -17:00
>
> Venue: Feestzaal of Maastricht University Faculty of Law,
> Bouillonstraat 3, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
>
> The mandate of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG)
> on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property was
> =E2=80=98to prepare a global strategy and plan of action on essential
> health research to address conditions affecting developing
> countries disproportionately=E2=80=99. The resulting global plan of
> action will be presented to the World Health Assembly
> mid-2008.
>
> The IGWG process and its outcomes are likely to have
> considerable implications on the extent to which the issues
> of public health, innovation and IPRs are being dealt with,
> both at the multilateral arena and domestically. The current
> discussions and debates over the IGWG process touch upon a
> multitude of issues, such as global governance, trade
> relations, industrial and innovation policies,
> evidence-based practices and access to medicines, as well as
> moral and ideological issues.
>
> Join us to discuss these fascinating issues.
>
> Speakers include (in alphabetical order): Prof. Michael
> Blakeney, Director, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research
> Institute; Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Director Masters
> Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management, Maastricht
> University Faculty of Law; Douglas Lippoldt, Groupe d=E2=80=99=C3=A9conom=
ie
> mondiale, Sciences Po and Senior Trade Policy Analyst, Trade
> Directorate, OECD; Prof. Gerald Mols, Rector, Maastricht
> University; Dr Meir Perez Pugatch, Director of Research,
> Stockholm Network & Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa; Antony
> Taubman, Acting Director and Head, Global IP, Issues Division,
> WIPO (tbc); Christoph Spennemann, Legal Expert Intellectual
> Property Team Policy Implementation Section, Division on
> Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development,  UNCTAD.
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>
> To RSVP please contact Dr Cristina Palomares, Chief Operating
> Officer, Stockholm Network on T: +44 20 7354 8888, F: +44 20
> 7359 8888 or via email: cristina@stockholm-network.org


best,
Karsten Gerloff

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