E-drug: Seeking your input: Prizes for Global Health Technologies
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I would like to invite your feedback on the *consultation draft of R4D’s Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment report “Prizes for Global Health Technologies”.
The paper evaluates the potential of incentive prizes- large cash rewards for specified products or product development milestones- to speed the development of needed drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for the developing world. It uses a case study of recent prize proposals for improved TB diagnostics to understand how prizes should be structured and in what circumstances they can be most effective.
Please visit Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment and to review the draft and add your comments.
http://healthresearchpolicy.org/assessments/draft
http://healthresearchpolicy.org/comment/reply/114#comment-form
If you prefer, you may also send comments directly to the report’s authors, Paul Wilson (pw2101@columbia.edu) and Amrita Palriwala (apalriwala@resultsfordevelopment.org).
This draft of our “Prizes for Global Health Technologies” is the first in a series of assessments to evaluate policy proposals to accelerate global health R&D. Additional draft assessments will be posted in the upcoming weeks for public comment, including pooled funding agreements and joint intellectual property management mechanisms.
Many thanks for your views on the report. They are an invaluable contribution to our assessment process.
Best regards,
Robert Hecht
Results for Development Institute (R4D)
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