Preliminaries; Contents; The Health Innovation Cycle: Making It Work For Poor People; The Deep Well Of Discovery: Early Stage Research; The Long Road From Discovery To Development; Delivery: Getting Products To Patients; Fostering Innovation In Developing Countries; Towards A Sustainable Plan To Promote Innovation And Access; Acronyms And Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Visits; Annex
Summary
The report of the Commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health was an attempt to gather all the stakeholders involved to analyse the relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health, with a particular focus on the question of funding and incentive mechanisms for the creation of new medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tests, to tackle diseases disproportionately affecting developing countries. The report provides a resource for the public health community by clarifying the impact of institutions, systems and policies outside the health s