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...recent op-ed called “Harvard as Big Pharma,” published on Mar. 1, outlined good reasons for Harvard’s involvement with private pharmaceutical companies. It demonstrated a vital engagement with the national conversation about the best means to ensure global access—particularly in the developing world—to the fruits of medical research performed within the academic community. This was accompanied by a call to deliver essential medicines to the developing world at a symposium held at Harvard Law School this week. Harvard should maintain momentum in its quest...
...Harvard has endorsed the sentiments of the Mar. 1 editorial in both its public statements and actualized them in many agreements with industry. In one policy example, OTD co-authored a position paper entitled “In the Public Interest: Points to Consider in Drafting Technology Licenses” with colleagues at several of Harvard’s peer institutions of higher education. It is an exhortation directed at the critical role that universities must play in serving the world’s most vulnerable populations. OTD also helped to develop a master agreement amongst all Massachusetts research institutions...
...progressive moment because markets have failed and we have got to show that they can be brought to work in the public interest," he told the summit in the Chilean beach resort of Vina del Mar. "It's a progressive moment because we have new administrations, particularly in America, that understand the opportunities as well as the challenges ahead. But it is also a progressive moment if we can find, not just a theory for explaining why markets have failed, but if we can find the policies that will ensure that this new global economy can be made to work...
...decade after the Washington summit at which Clinton, Blair and then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sat down to sketch out a common world view, their successors have a prevailing wind at their backs. Yet, here in Vina del Mar, they seemed hesitant to seize "the progressive moment...
...Mar. 27 news article "Koh Tapped To Be Assistant Secretary for Health" incorrectly stated that incoming Assistant Secretary for Health Howard K. Koh would manage the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, based on information provided by the Harvard School of Public Health. In fact, Koh will not manage those agencies in his new role...