A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations:
Reconciling Intellectual Property with Human Rights
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Workshop Agenda
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October 29, 2022
9:00-9:15 Thomas Pogge and Peter Yu: Introductory Remarks
9:15-9:55 Joshua D. Sarnoff, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law: Duties, Obligations, IP, and the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress and Its Applications
9:55-10:35 Emmanuel Kolawole Oke, Senior Lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law, Edinburgh Law School: Patent Rights, the Right to Health, and the WTO’s Dispute Settlement System (via Zoom)
10:35-11:15 Aidan Hollis, Professor of Economics, University of Calgary: Human-Centered Health Innovation: An Economist’s Perspective
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:10 Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law: The Role of Technology Specificity in Promoting a Human-Centered Approach to Medicines During Transnational Public Health Crises
12:10-12:50 Cynthia M. Ho, Clifford E. Vickrey Research Professor and Director, Intellectual Property Program, Loyola University Chicago School of Law: Recalibrating Trade Secrets Impacting Health to Promote Human Rights (via Zoom)
12:50-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:40 Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita and Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, New York University School of Law: Human Rights in a Technological Age: The Right to Participate in Science
2:40-3:20 Peter K. Yu, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University: Can the Right to Science Reduce the Tensions Between Intellectual Property and Human Rights?
3:20-3:35 Coffee Break
3:35-4:15 Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and Director, Global Justice Program, Yale University: When Do Monopolies Violate Human Rights?
4:15-4:55 Chidi Oguamanam, University Research Chair in Sustainable Bio-Innovation, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Global Knowledge Governance, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa: Of Rights and the Benefits of ‘Scientific’ Innovation in Health: Pragmatic Policy Pathways for Indigenous and Local Communities (via Zoom)
4:55-5:35 Genevieve Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney: Recognising Children’s Rights in Human Centred Approaches to Health Innovation (via Zoom)
Sunday, October 30, 2022
9:00-9:40 Brook K. Baker, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law: Human Rights to Health, Medicines, and the Fruits of Scientific Research in the Pre-Access Phase
9:40-10:20 Jorge Contreras, James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah: Open Biology 2.0—COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Renewed Interest in Open-Source Biomedical Research
10:20-11:00 Srividhya Ragavan, Professor of Law and Director of India Programs, Texas A&M University School of Law and Swaraj Paul Barooah, Managing Editor, SpicyIP: Public Health in a Post-Pandemic World—Need for an Accountable Approach? (via Zoom)
11:00-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-11:50 Mark Eccleston-Turner, Senior Lecturer in Global Health Law, School of Global Affairs, King’s College London and Michelle Rourke, CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University: Purchasing the Right to Health with Virus Samples—The Rhetorical Appeal of Access and Benefit Sharing
11:50-12:30 Diane Desierto, Professor of Law and Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame: Title TBA (via Zoom) Saturday-Sunday, 29-30 October 2022