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Explores a rethinking of global and local manufacturing of medical products after COVID-19
Argues that it's time to re-design the global public health governance for health R&D
Discusses the lessons of COVID-19 for WHO and the necessary measures that a reform of WHO would have to take
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
- COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics
- Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy
- Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19
- Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock
- Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines
- The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19
Keywords
- COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic
- access to affordable essential medicines
- Vaccine nationalism and vaccine safety
- World Health Organization reform
- Biosimilars and biotherapeutics
- COVAX Facility
- COVID-19 diagnostics
- Global health preparedness
- Article 19 of the WHO Constitution
- access to COVID-19 tools (ACT) accelerator
- Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
- Inter-Governmental Working Group (IGWG)
- Patentability criteria
- Pharmaceutical sovereignty
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
- World Health Assembly (WHA)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- non-governmental organization (NGOs)
- Open Access
Authors and Affiliations
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Policy and Health, South Centre, Geneva 19, Switzerland
Germán Velásquez
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
Book Subtitle: How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?
Authors: Germán Velásquez
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89125-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: SC: South Centre 2022
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89124-4Published: 25 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89125-1Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 117
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Policy, Biomaterials-Vaccines, Public Health