E-drug: Partnerships
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In April, a meeting on "Partnerships" was held in Boston. The meeting
was organized by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Global
Health Council. Funding was provided by a number of drug companies and
the Edna McConnel Clark foundation.
An overview piece has been written by Michael Reich from Harvard School
of Public Health and has been published in Nature Medicine and is
available on the Web at www.nature.com/nm/web_specials
The papers from the workshop are also available at
www.hsph.harvard.edu/partnerships/
I found the meeting interesting. The most striking thing that struck me
was the lack of mutual knowledge or understanding which existed between
activists, essential drug types and members of the pharmaceutical
industry. As "Partnerships" are clearly going to be a significant part
of the international pharmaceutical scene understanding this process is
clearly important. Reading these papers will help this understanding.
If you are unable to access these papers I suggest that you write to
Michael Reich at : Reich@hsph.harvard.edu . The titles of the papers
are:
Paper #1: Public-Private Partnerships: Illustrative Examples
Adetokunbo Lucas
Paper #2: Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International
Trachoma Initiative
Diana Barrett, James Austin, and Sheila McCarthy
Paper #3: The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships
Marc J. Roberts, A.G. Breitenstein, and Clement S. Roberts
Paper #4: A Partnership for Ivermectin: Social Worlds and Boundary
Objects
Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich, Tomoko Fujisaki
Paper #5: The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI
William Muraskin
Paper #6: The United Nations and Global Public-Private Health
Partnerships: In Search of 'Good' Global Governance
Kent Buse and Gill Walt
Commentary: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
Michael R. Reich, published in Nature Medicine 6(6):617-620, 2000.
Kent Buse and Gill Walt have just had an article published in the
Bulletin of the World Health organization which is available on the Web
at http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue
4/bu0240.pdf
The reference is Global public-private partnerships: part I - a new
development in health? by K Buse & G. Walt: vol.78, no.4, 549-561.
Richard Laing
Associate Professor
Department of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany St
Boston MA 02118-2526
E-mail richardl@bu.edu
Tel 617 414-1444
Fax 617 638-4476
richardl@bu.edu
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