PROGRAMME

• Mini-lecture 1: How is the development, production and access to treatment for pandemics governed internationally? What weaknesses did Covid-19 expose, and what are proposals to address them?
• Mini-lecture 2: How is cross-border trade in essential supplies and services for pandemics governed (e.g. diagnostics, personal protective equipment, food, raw materials)? What weaknesses did Covid-19 expose, and what are proposals to address them? ​ ​

SPEAKERS

• Marcela Vieira, Researcher and Project Coordinator of the Knowledge Network for Innovation and Access to Medicines, Global Health Centre
• Jan Bohanes, Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)

READINGS

• Wellcome (2021) Achieving Equitable Access to Health Technologies: What have we learned from Covid-19 thus far?
• World Trade Organization (2021) Executive Summary, Overview of Developments in the International Trading Environment.

      Supplemental Reading

• Cohen R, Childs M et al. (2021) Will science deliver needed therapeutics for COVID-19 – and how can equitable access be ensured? The BMJ.