Secrets, Discoveries & Medicine
Professor Stuart Blume, Professor Nitsan Chorev, Professor David Heymann, Dr Zafar Mirza, Professor Andrew Webster

• Friday 12 June 2015, 6.30PM to 8.00pm
• Free admission
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• National Science Learning Centre (map)

Wheelchair accessible.

Event details

This roundtable will debate pharmaceutical innovation in relation to clinical trial openness, patents and Intellectual Property from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It will examine marketing and business models, and explore some of the major challenges, as well as potential benefits, associated with different practices, legal frameworks and policies. Looking at the implications of all these themes on contemporary global health, it will adopt an international perspective with the help of a range of experts from Europe and the US.

Speakers

Professor Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam

Professor Nitsan Chorev, Brown University

Professor David Heymann, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Zafar Mirza, WHO

Chair: Professor Andrew Webster, University of York

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