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Pharma's Influence on India's Global Health Engagement

Pharma's Influence on India's Global Health Engagement

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India must balance its advocacy on behalf of developing countries with the interests of its growing domestic industry

Trade Law Confronts an Exceptional Global Health Crisis

Trade Law Confronts an Exceptional Global Health Crisis

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How should the trade system change after the pandemic?

Sharpening the Tools in the Pandemic-Ending Toolbox

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After nearly two years of negotiation, the WTO makes a decision about COVID-19 vaccine production and access

Sharpening the Tools in the Pandemic-Ending Toolbox

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

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Patents aren't really the problem—usually

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

Student-Led Activism Transforming the Access to Medicines Movement

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Universities are crucial allies to the global movement pushing to broaden access to vaccines

UAEM UCLA students organize outside the Board of Regents meeting on the campus to demand they drop the patent on a life-saving prostate cancer drug.

Patent Pools and the Pandemic—A Renewed Debate

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In light of COVID-19 we need to revisit patent pools and their potential for pro-competitive and anticompetitive effects

The "Fearless Girl" statue is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange following first trading session since its March coronavirus lockdown in the Manhattan borough of New York City on May 26, 2020. The photo shows the statue with a huge American flag in the background. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Coronavirus Drugs—To Have and Have Not

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Africa's least developed countries should apply a WTO patent waiver, to import generic versions of future COVID-19 drugs

Combination of photos show people wearing face masks at the re-opening of the Rood-Wooko city central market, amid the spread of coronavirus in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on April 20, 2020. The picture is a photo montage showing an array of people wearing a variety of masks. REUTERS/Anne Mimault

Six Proactive Steps in a Smart Trade Approach to Fighting COVID-19

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Tariffs, subsidies, waivers, licensure, and what a trade agenda to support the fight against coronavirus might look like

Container ship RDO Concord sails through the Suez Canal on November 17, 2019. The picture places the viewer in the wake of a massive freighter stacked high with metal shipping containers as a smaller patrol-type boat passes in the foreground. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany