PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE: SYMPOSIUM TECHNIQUE CONJOINT OMS-OMPI-OMC

Innovation et accès aux technologies médicales — 5 novembre 2014

L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), l'Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) et l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) ont tenu un symposium technique sur l'“innovation et l'accès aux technologies médicales: défis et possibilités pour les pays à revenu moyen” le 5 novembre 2014 à l'OMC, à Genève.

Ce quatrième symposium technique trilatéral a examiné certains défis et possibilités dans les pays à revenu moyen. Ces pays rattrapent leur retard dans le domaine de l'innovation biomédicale et du développement industriel, mais ils sont aussi confrontés à des difficultés pour ce qui est de garantir à leurs populations un accès aux produits de santé innovants.

 

INNOVATION AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

A JOINT TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM BY
WHO, WIPO AND WTO

GENEVA, 5 November 2014, WTO CR Room

PROGRAMME

08.30 – 09.00

Registration of Participants

09.00 – 10.15

Opening Remarks   

  • Xiaozhun Yi, Deputy Director-General
    World Trade Organization (WTO)
    > Audio
  • Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovation, World Health Organization (WHO)
    > Audio
  • Johannes Christian Wichard, Deputy Director General, Global Issues Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
    > Audio

 

 

10.30 – 12.00

Session 1: Setting the scene

The concept of middle-income countries: What does it mean? How do we measure capacity for innovation? What are the factors of success?

Discussion

    Moderator:

    Carlos Primo Braga, Professor, IMD and Director, The Evian Group@IMD

    Speakers:

    — Robert B Koopman, WTO Chief Economist

    — David Evans, David B. Evans, Director, Department of Health Systems Governance& Financing (HGF), WHO
    > Presentation

    — Carsten Fink, WIPO Chief Economist
    > Presentation

> Audio
Video: Part 1
Video: Part 2

 

 

12.00 – 12.30

Ebola: Innovation and Access to New Treatments

 

 

13.30 – 15.00

Session 2 : Trends in medical technologies innovation in MICs

    Moderator: Johannes Christian Wichard, WIPO

    Speakers:

    — Joseph Damond, Senior Vice-President International, BIO
    > Presentation

    — Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India
    > Presentation

    — Peter Chun, Chairman, EASE-Medtrend Biotech (Shanghai) Ltd.
    > Presentation

> Audio
Video: Part 1
Video: Part 2

 

 

15.15 – 16.45

Session 3: The challenge of ensuring access to medical technologies in middle-income countries

    Moderator: Cornelis de Joncheere, Director Essential Medicines and Health Products, WHO

    Speakers:

    — Chua Hong Teck, Director of Healthcare National Key Economic Area in the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, Malaysia
    > Presentation

    — Manica Balasegaram, Executive Director Access Campaign Médecins Sans Frontières  
    > Presentation

    — Wim Leereveld, Founder & CEO Access to Medicine Foundation
    > Presentation

> Audio
Video: Part 1
Video: Part 2

 

 

16.45 – 17.30

Closing Session: Wrap up and Future plans

    Speakers:

    — Johannes Christian Wichard, WIPO
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    — Zafar Mirza, Coordinator Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, WHO
    > Audio

    — Antony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property Division, WTO
    > Audio

Video