[Ip-health] Second round of public submissions to WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

http://keionline.org/node/691

Second round of public submissions to WHO Expert Working Group on R&D
Financing
By thiru
Created 17 Nov 2009 - 5:42am

November 17, 2009

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just published submissions
from Member States, individuals, civil society groups, government
institutions, academic and research institutions, the private sector
and other interested parties pertaining to the "evaluation framework,
evaluation criteria and the inventory of financing proposals being
considered by the EWG from those with particular knowledge, experience
or expertise. The public hearing was open between 17 August and 5
September." The decision to hold the second round of web-based public
hearings was reached at the second meeting of the Expert Working Group
in June 2009. The final meeting of the Expert Working Group (EWG) will
be held on November 30, 2009.

The submissions from Member States can be found here:

http://www.who.int/phi/public_hearings/second/contributions/mspublichearing_rdf09/en/index.html

Here are the following country submissions:

Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia and Suriname

The Netherlands

Netherlands (criteria for proposals)

The submissions from other stakeholders including individuals, civil
society groups, government institutions, academic and research
institutions, the private sector and other interested parties can be
found here:

http://www.who.int/phi/public_hearings/second/contributions/shpublichearing_rdf09/en/index.html

Here are some of the groups that submitted comments: Knowledge Ecology
International, Health Action International, Third World Network, IFPMA-
PhRMA, Pfizer, DNDi, Global Forum for Health Research and IAVI.


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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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