Abbe Brown

Lost in negotiation: Re-positioning public health in the Pandemic Agreement 25 May by Amitabha Sarkar , Alison McCallum , Abbe Brown , Corrado Piroddi , Chloe Stephenson , Meri Koivusalo “World Health Organisation building from west” by Yann (talk) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. In December 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO World Health Assembly established an international body to negotiate a convention, agreement, or other international instrument to strengthen pandemic...

This is the second in a series of posts being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis. The first blog post is available here. In the grip of a world pandemic of COVID-19 when scientists are racing to develop a cure, the idea of anyone claiming intellectual property rights to the exclusive use of the cure may seem difficult to rationalise.