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Georgiamune and Verily Partner to Advance Novel Cancer Treatment

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What You Should Know: – Georgiamune , a privately held, clinical stage biotechnology company, and Verily , an Alphabet precision health technology company forms a strategic partnership to advance novel therapeutics for patients with cancer.

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Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

Bill Of Health

These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology. Deborah DiSanzo is president of Best Buy Health for Best Buy Co.

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The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good 

Bill Of Health

The Pandemic Treaty (or other legal instrument) scheduled for discussion at the World Health Assembly in the fall of 2021 should focus on establishing the norm that the IP and knowledge needed to develop and produce essential pandemic health technologies become global public goods. and German governments in particular.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill Of Health

We could start by reclaiming the role of the public in the development of new health technologies. Public dollars should come with obligations to serve the public interest — from pricing to technology transfer. We could also organize and fund global health in a way that recognizes its centrality to our own health.

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Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic

Bill Of Health

One of the first outputs of this informal collective, led by Knowledge Ecology International, was to instigate and support an initiative by Costa Rica to establish and IP licensing pool at the WHO for COVID-19 health technologies.