Vaccines: Accelerating Innovation and Access
Global Challenges Report
Auteur: Hilde Stevens
Auteur: Isabelle Huys
Auteur: Koenraad Debackere
Auteur: Michel Goldman
Auteur: Philip Stevens
Auteur: Richard T. Mahoney
Année de publication: 2017
DOI: English
This Global Challenges Report describes the innovation process for vaccines. It explains how the restricted availability of vaccines is due to impediments at every stage of the process. Most of these obstacles are manageable, and intellectual property (IP) rights are associated with only some of them. The analysis aims to put into perspective debates around health innovation and the availability of health technologies in developing countries, especially with respect to the role of IP. In particular, it provides an overview of how IP has been used to meet global health challenges in the vaccines field, and considers whether lessons can be drawn to inform other important health technologies.