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Improving global access to new vaccines: Intellectual property, technology transfer, and regulatory pathways

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  • Crager, S.E.

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The 2012 World Health Assembly Global Vaccine Action Plan called for global access to new vaccines within 5 years of licensure. Current approaches have proven insufficient to achieve sustainable vaccine pricing within such a timeline. Paralleling the successful strategy of generic competition to bring down drug prices, a clear consensus is emerging that market entry of multiple suppliers is a critical factor in expeditiously bringing down prices of new vaccines. In this context, key target objectives for improving access to new vaccines include overcoming intellectual property obstacles, stream-lining regulatory pathways for biosimilar vaccines, and reducing market entry timelines for developing-country vaccine manufacturers by transfer of technology and know-how. I propose an intellectual property, technology, and know-how bank as a new approach to facilitate widespread access to new vaccines in low- and middle-income countries by efficient transfer of patented vaccine technologies to multiple developing-country vaccine manufacturers. © 2014, American Public Health Association Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Crager, S.E., 2014. "Improving global access to new vaccines: Intellectual property, technology transfer, and regulatory pathways," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 104(11), pages 85-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.302236_0
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302236
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    1. Fonseca, Elize Massard da & Shadlen, Kenneth C. & Achcar, Helena de Moraes, 2023. "Vaccine technology transfer in a global health crisis: Actors, capabilities, and institutions," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(4).

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