Talks and workshops

 

2024

Estimating sustainable cost-based prices for diabetes medicines. University of York Centre for Heath Economics. York, United Kingdom

 

2023

Legislative Proposals to Prevent and Respond to Generic Drug Shortages. Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. Washington DC, USA.

Delinking incentives to invest from government granted monopolies: how would it work? With Rohit Malpani, James Love (KEI), and Dean Baker (CEPR). Virtual.

University of York Economics Seminar. York, United Kingdom

 

2022

To patent the sun:  how intellectual property shapes access to health technologies. Guest lecture for course taught by Dr Madhukar Pai,  Canada Research Chair in Translational Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University. Montreal, Canada.

 

2021

“A catastrophic moral failure”: COVID-19 and the political economy of access to medical technologies. Guest lecture for Harvard School of Public Health course "The Political Economy of Global Health." Boston, USA.

 

2020

Fair or excessive? Estimating confidential pharmaceutical manufacturing costs and applications in law. Oxford University Intellectual Property Law Discussion Group (IPDG). Oxford, United Kingdom.

 

2019

Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Policy. Guest lecture for Harvard School of Public Health course "The Political Economy of Global Health." Boston, USA.

Agents of un-­change: Implicating institutions and actors maintaining current health inequities. Decolonizing Global Health Conference. Boston, USA.

 

2018

Countering information asymmetry in price negotiations: estimating the costs of production of medicines. Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Washington DC, USA.

 

2017

Are prices of medicines influenced by production costs? Production costs for the medicines on the WHO Essential Medicines List [Keynote]. Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Information (PPRI) Network Meeting. Stockholm, Sweden.

How to calculate fair prices of antimicrobials - methodological and practical issues. European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Vienna, Austria.

Unexplained rises in UK cancer drug prices between 2011 and 2016. European Cancer Congress. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 

2016

¿Cuál es el costo para producir un medicamento? Congreso internacional sobre acceso a medicamentos, tecnologías médicas y derechos humanos. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Declaration on patent protection: regulatory sovereignty under the TRIPS Agreement, The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the University of South Africa College of Law. Pretoria, South Africa.