E-DRUG: MSF Webcast on Medical Innovations for Neglected Patients and Populations
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Lives in the Balance:Delivering Medical Innovations for Neglected Patients and Populations
FREE MSF WEBCAST
Webcast broadcast languages available: English, Spanish, Portuguese
December 13-14, 2012
(December 13: 9am EST - 5:30pm EST, 15:00 - 23:30 CET, 12:00pm - 20:30 BRST; December 14: 9am EST - 1:30pm EST, 15:00 - 19:30 CET, 12:00pm - 16:30 BRST)
On December 13-14, 2012, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Mount Sinai School of Medicines Global Health Program will hold a symposium in New York titled Lives in the Balance: Delivering Medical Innovation for Neglected Patients and Populations." This symposium will bring together key actors in global public health to reflect on progress and shortcomings of the past decade, while also charting ways to stimulate urgent research and development (R&D) and accelerate the delivery of medical innovations.
The first day will feature a keynote address from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIHs National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; panel presentations on Global Progress and Shortcomings of the Past Decade and New Tools and the R&D Landscape; and high-level roundtable debates on Setting Priorities for Global Health to Ensure Innovation and Access and Mechanisms for Facilitating Financing and Coordination. The second day will focus on concrete ways to accelerate the development and delivery of new tools for drug-resistant tuberculosis, Chagas disease, and vaccine-preventable illnesses.
View the preliminary agenda at doctorswithoutborders.org/livesinthebalance
Register for the webcast at /livesinthebalancewebcast.eventbrite.com
Joanna Keenan
Press Officer
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Access Campaign
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