| | Event: | Ministerial Breakfast Roundtable at the ECOSOC High Level Segment on the Global Public Health, High-Quality, and Low-Cost Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries | | Date: | 7 July 2009 | | Location: | Geneva | Venue: | Delegates’ Dining Room, Palais des Nations | | | Description: | The WHO, UNCTAD and ICTSD are launching a new project on pharmaceutical-related transfer of technology in favour of developing countries. The project is funded by the European Commission.
The UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Petko Draganov will open the roundtable introducing the challenges of local production of pharmaceuticals and the new project.
Dr. Elil Renganathan, the Director of the WHO Secretariat on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, will also speak on the launch of the new project and the developments at WHO.
The Chief Executive of ICTSD, Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, will address the recent multilateral developments, the challenges of access to medicine and the collaboration under the new project on pharmaceutical-related transfer of technology in favour of developing countries.
Jürgen Reinhardt of UNIDO will speak on the industrial and economic challenges of pharmaceutical production in developing countries and the work of UNIDO in this regard.
Ambassador Fisseha Yimer will co-chair the roundtable and present the experience of Ethiopia on local production of pharmaceuticals. | | Language(s): | English | | Related sites: | Development Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights
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 | Summary, , 04/09/09 , 2page(s) , 72Kb | | Statement by Mr. Petko Draganov Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD, , 07/07/09 , 3page(s) , 20Kb | | Statement by Dr. Elil Renganathan, Director, WHO Secretariat on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, , 07/07/09 , 3page(s) , 34Kb | | Statement by Mr. Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, Chief Executive of ICTSD, , 07/07/09 , 3page(s) , 119Kb | | Statement by Ambassador Fisseha Yimer, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations in Geneva, , 07/07/09 , 3page(s) , 111Kb | | Programme Timetable, , 07/07/09 , 1page(s) , 12Kb |
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