The Moral Economy of Essential Medicines
Who stole our global innovation commons and how can we get it back?

Even before the global Covid-19 pandemic, the world had already entered an age of pandemics. Since 2020, the world has faced an innovation crisis: failing to bring healing medicines to the majority of the world's population. Drawing from her award-winning book Pandemic Medicine, Ibata-Arens' talk analyzes the reasons why there is a mismatch between the global intellectual property rights (IPR) governing who gets to profit and access essential medicines - and human health. It offers a "typology of innovation system architectures (TISA)" framework to explain the divergent approaches taken by China, India, and Japan in dealing with crisis innovation and improving human health.

• 11 July 2023 | 16.00 - 18.00 (France time)
• In English
• On-site at EHESS: 2 Cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers (room 50)
• Registration (mandatory)

Programme

16:00 | Opening remarks

·         Sébastien Lechevalier (President, Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS)

16:05 | The Moral Economy of Essential Medicines: Who stole our global innovation commons and how can we get it back?

·         Kathryn Ibata-Arens (Professor, DePaul University)

17:00 | Discussion

·         Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Professor, EHESS-CERMES3)

·         Philippe Gorry (Associate professor, Bordeaux University)

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