Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment

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But what is collaborative R&D exactly? Who’s doing it and why? Is open source the same as crowdsourcing? Visit our new web-based primer to begin answering some of these questions and learning about different approaches to collaborative R&D in health.

Our newest report explores the gaps in technology to address NCDs in low resource settings and examines whether or not new technology R&D is needed.

From across the globe, new proposals are surfacing to speed up the development of medical technologies for the world’s poorest countries. Visit our Policy Innovation Database to explore current policy proposals.

Billions of people in the developing world suffer from diseases that mainstream research and development (R&D) overlooks. New policy ideas to create incentives and address other barriers are emerging–along with a need for deep analysis.

We provide assessments of innovative policy proposals so that the best ideas flourish and produce the drugs, vaccines and diagnostics needed for the poor.

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Posted by Edith Han

Dec 13 2012

Save the Date: Webinar on alternative models for global health R&D

The business of developing drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for neglected disease is complex. Public and private product developers must navigate tough scientific challenges, identify financing options, explore uncertain markets, and establish wide-ranging collaborations to come up with promising technologies.

Featured Policy Innovations

Equitable Licensing

The proposal puts forward the concept of "Equitable Licensing" an idea for how intellectual property rights should be structured for R&D for NTDs. The proponents urge that the results of publicly funded R&D should be available for non-exclusive licensing. The proposal relies on 3 IP principles:

Non-exclusive use of publicly funded research results should be the default...

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