Webinar: Challenging the idea of “substandard and falsified medical products”: what role for WHO in facilitating geographically diversified medical manufacturing?
Join us on Tuesday 21 January 2025, from 15.00 to 16.30 for our fourth session of the G2H2 Policy Debates in a zoom webinar on “Challenging the idea of “substandard and falsified medical products”: what role for WHO in facilitating geographically diversified medical manufacturing?”, co-organized with People’s Health Movement (PHM). While attendance is public, registration is required.
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Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET / Registration link: here
This session will focus on historicizing debates around “Agenda Item 9: Substandard and falsified medical products” (which is due to be discussed at EB156). It will provide a brief overview of the emergence of the WHO’s preoccupation with the idea of substandard and falsified medical products and locate this idea in relation to the resistance to the rise of generics manufacturers in the 1990s. It also seeks to provide a critical analysis of this debate in the contemporary moment: why is this terminology still being used in WHO documentation? How might it complicate ambitions for creating more geographically diversified medical manufacturing capabilities being advocated for in the Pandemic Accord process and elsewhere? Finally, how could the WHO’s work on the “economics of health for all” be used to change the terms of debates on medical manufacturing by shifting the focus from originator vs. generic vs. “falsified” products to a focus on public ownership of the medical manufacturing pipeline? The session will take a webinar format with key resource people providing 10–15-minute inputs, followed by a question-and-answer session/discussion.
More about this session
· Language: English
· Session organized by People’s Health Movement (PHM)
· Contact: Lauren Paremoer
G2H2 Series of Policy Debates – Sessions’ overview
Monday 20 January 2025
13.00-14.30 CET: Financialization and capital investment in the health sector: the need for some guidance (organized by Wemos)
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15.00-16.30 CET: Garnering Civil Society and Member States support for a Resolution on the Regulation of digital marketing of baby feeding products (organized by International Baby Food Action Network - IBFAN)
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Tuesday 21 January 2025
13.00-14.30 CET : Ensuring the Right to Health through evidence-based public health approach to substance use challenges (organized by DIANOVA)
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15.00 -16.30 CET: Challenging the idea of “substandard and falsified medical products”: what role for WHO in facilitating geographically diversified medical manufacturing? (organized by People’s Health Movement -PHM)
Registration link: here
Wednesday 22 January 2025
15.00-16.30 CET: Taking actions against glyphosate to fight the AMR pandemic (organized by Society for International Development - SID)
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Thursday 23 January 2025
13.00-14.30 CET : Energy transition and health rights (organized by Society for International Development - SID)
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15.00-16.30 CET: UHC is incomplete and inequitable without access to palliative care (organized by International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care - IAHPC)
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Friday 24 January 2025
13.00-14.30 CET: Civil society engagement in the development of WHA resolutions and decisions (organized by Medicus Mundi International Network Health for All (MMI), World Vision International, Women in Global Health, European Public Health Alliance in cooperation with the WHO Civil Society Commission)
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15.00-16.30 CET: Civil Society assessments around the WHO Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (organized by Medicus Mundi International Network Health for All (MMI) with the support of Public Service International (PSI) and Wemos)
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