Joe Brew
The World Health Organization and the “Consultative Expert Working Group on Researching and Development” deserves our applause….
The World Health Organization and the “Consultative Expert Working Group on Researching and Development” deserves our applause….
So many bad ideas in so few pages. That's impressive!
“Therefore we do not pretend that this method of prioritization is scientific; rather we used it as a means by which we could come in a reasonably systematic manner to a collective judgement, informed by our own diverse experiences of what is likely to work better in practice and what is likely to work less well or not at all.”
“A fair arrangement for burden-sharing… of costs”“
Delinking essentially means disincentivizing.
Removing data exclusivity would “not adversely affect inovation incentives”???
The authors reject all ideas pertaining to orphaned drug schemes, prize incentives, tax incentives and transferable intellectual property rights.
The authors favor “open publishing approaches” so as to “reduce duplication in research”.
The authors rule out “regulatory harmonization” because of the “lack of capacity in many regulatory authorities in developing countries”.