TACD PRESENTATIONS

Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Promoting Good Ideas on Drugs: Are Patents the Best Way?
The Relative Efficiency of Patent and Public Support for Bio-Medical Research
Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 1. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
2. The need for a treaty to support research that enters the public domain
Warren A. Kaplan, Boston University Law School The "AntiCommons" Effect: What is the Evidence?
Jon Merz, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Genetic Discovery and the Need for Compulsory Licensing
Ben Peck, Public Citizen Pediatric Patent Extensions
Alan Sager, Boston University School of Public Health Protecting Consumers Completely and Rewarding Drug Makers Fairly: A prescription drug peace treaty for the U.S.A.
Robert Weissman, Essential Action FTAA and Access to Medicines
Rachel M. Cohen, Doctors Without Borders/MSF Access to Essential Medicines and Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology 1. Restrictions on exports of medicine: irrational public policy, backdoor efforts to marginalize compulsory licensing, or Northern protectionism?
2. How to frame a global trade agreement that promotes R&D, and which is consistent with our notions of efficiency and fairness
Spring Gombe, HAI Europe / MSF / Oxfam Barriers to Generics in Central and Eastern Europe