Health Policy & Bioethics Consortium: Making Pharmaceuticals Accessible and Affordable
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 2023-03-13

New prescription drugs and vaccines are protected by patents, which allow manufacturers to charge monopoly prices and prevent others from entering the market. In this session, experts in patents and vaccine development will identify and discuss challenges to making drug innovations open-access and opportunities for patent reform to improve access to new and important medicines.

Panelists:
(1) Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD
Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Director, Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development

(2) Tahir Amin, LLB, Dip LP
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK)

Moderator:
Sean Tu, JD, PhD
Professor of Law, College of Law, West Virginia University