Podcast: Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
Channel: Law Centre for Health and Life
Date: 2021-07-05

This episode is about access to Covid-19 vaccines. Katrina Perehudoff (UvA LCHL) speaks to associate prof. Anniek de Ruijter (UvA LCHL) to shed some light on Europe’s role in vaccine access. Then Katrina catches up with prof. Suerie Moon (Graduate Institute Geneva) to lay out the potential for a more cooperative global vaccines policy. 

Join us to hear about how law and policy influence how vaccines are developed, produced and traded, and how this has all translated into inequitable vaccine distribution. 

This podcast is part of our 2021 launch series celebrating the opening of the Law Centre for Health and Life. This episode is presented in English with video and audio. 

Read more about our recent work on Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics: 

Baute, S., & Ruijter, A de. (2021). EU health solidarity in times of crisis: explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1936129

Smith M, Forman L, Parker M, Perehudoff K, Rawson B, Sekalala S. (2021) Should COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Emergency Use Be Considered “Essential” Medicines? Health and Human Rights. 23(1):145-150. https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/06/should-covid-19-vaccines-authorized-for-emergency-use-be-considered-essential-medicines/ 

Perehudoff, K., Hoen, E. T., & Boulet, P. (2021). Overriding drug and medical technology patents for pandemic recovery: a legitimate move for high-income countries, too. BMJ Global Health, 6(4), e005518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005518

Beetsma, R. M. W. J., Burgoon, B. M., Nicoli, F., de Ruijter, A., & Vandenbroucke, F. I. G. (2021). Public support for European cooperation in the procurement, stockpiling and distribution of medicines. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa201

de Ruijter, A. (2021). How the EU vaccine troubles could have partially been prevented ten years ago. The Lancet Regional Health-Europe, 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100083

Sekalala, S., Perehudoff, K., Parker, M., Forman, L., Rawson, B., & Smith, M. (2021). An intersectional human rights approach to prioritising access to COVID-19 vaccines. BMJ Global Health, 6(2), [e004462]. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004462