Public health, innovation, intellectual property and trade

Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG)

At its first meeting in April 2011 the CEWG decided to launch a call for submissions of R&D financing and coordination proposals, consistent with its mandate, covering:

  • any new, or significantly improved or revised, proposals related to the 22 reviewed in the EWG report;
  • proposals from the 109 screened by the EWG which were thought to deserve further consideration; and
  • any new or improved proposals not considered by the EWG.

List of submissions received

Health Action International Global, Initiative for Health & Equity in Society, Knowledge Ecology International, Médecins Sans Frontières, Third World Network, 'Consideration of an Essential Health and Biomedical R&D Treaty'

Several Countries

Knowledge Ecology International. 'Innovation Inducement Prizes'

United States of America and Switzerland

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). Financing & incentives for neglected disease R&D

BOULET, Pascale, Switzerland

Health Insight Ltd. Neglected Tropical Diseases Management Portal-Epidemiological Watcher

CABRAL, Ricardo - Portugal

COHRED & Global Forum for Health Research. 'Investing in Small- and Medium Sized Enterprises in Innovative Developing Countries

GARDNER, Charles, Switzerland

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. 'Submission to the CEWG'

GOPINATHAN, Unni and COLLINSWORTH, Bryan, United States of America

Incentives for Global Health. 'Health Impact Fund'

United States of America

WHO Pakistan Country Office. 'Open Source software for improving Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Services in Pakistan'

KAZI, Ghulam Nabi, Pakistan

Euromed Management, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), (GREQAM), (IDEP). 'Optimal Hedging against the premature obsolescence of available treatments.'

LEONI, Patrick and LUCHINI, Stéphane, France

Euromed Management. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 'Reduction of patents' duration to prevent collusion at industry level'

LEONI, Patrick and SANDRONI, Alvaro, France and United States of America

Dr Argarwal's Eye Hospital Ltd. 'Maternal Mortality Reduction Proposal'

M, Christopher - India

'A New Incentive System for Technological Innovation in Developing Countries'

Miguel A. Maito - Eduardo Franciosi, Argentina

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et de Dévelopement. 'International Bank for Innovation (IBI) ("Green Intellectual Property")'

NITTA, Itaru, Switzerland

African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI). Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). 'The ANDI Model'

NWAKA, Solomon, Ethiopia and Switzerland

University of Costa Rica. Employees' food safety knowledge and practices in foodservice operations serving high risk populations.'

PAEZ, Paola, Costa Rica.

Clinical Research, Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital Ltd. 'Limbal Stem Cell Bioengineering'.

RAJ, Lional and ANANDAN, Heber, India

Health Action International (HAI). 'Submission to the CEWG'.

REED, Tim, Netherlands

BIOventures for Global Health. 'A Milestone-Based Prize to Stimulate R&D for Point-of-Care Fever Diagnostics'

ROBERTSON, Andrew.S, United States of America

All India Drug Action Network, Centad, Berne Declaration, Initiative for Health and Equity in Society, People's Health Movement, Third World Network. A Global Framework on Health Research and Development.

Several countries

Novartis International AG. 'Fund for Research and Development in Neglected Diseases'.

STEVENS, Rebecca, Switzerland

Equitable Licensing / med4all

WAGNER-AHLFS, Christian., TINNEMANN, Peter., GODT, Christine. BUKO Pharma-Kampagne. Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Open Source Drug Discovery

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India

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