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BOX 1: WHA RESOLUTIONS, WORKING GROUPS ESTABLISHED AND MEETINGS CONDUCTED RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS,
INNOVATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESOLUTIONS WORKING GROUPS
MEETINGS IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS
10. Resolution WHA66.22 Follow-up of the
Report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and
Development: Financing and Coordination adopted by the 66
th
World Health Assembly: May 2013
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Requested the Director General to:
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a. develop norms and standards for classification of
health research and development, building on existing sources, in consultation with Member
States and relevant stakeholders, in order to collect and collate information systematically
b. facilitate through regional consultations and
broad engagement of relevant stakeholders the implementation of a few health research and
development demonstration projects to address identified gaps that disproportionately affect
developing countries, particularly the poor, and for which immediate action can be taken
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BOX 2: ACTIVITIES RELATED TO CEWG RECOMMENDATIONS CONDUCTED AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL
ACTIVITY IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONOUTCOME
1. Conduct of Regional Consultation for
Development of a Regional Framework on Public Health,
Innovation and Intellectual Property in New Delhi on 5-6 April, 2011
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SEAR Member States identified national and regional priorities for the 8 elements and 25 sub-elements of
the GSPA, and presented a set of recommendations for WHO and Member States of the region that
requires further engagement at national, regional and global levels
2.1 Conduct of Regional Technical
Consultation in Bangkok, Thailand on 15- 17 August 2012
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2.2 Regional technical discussion of the
CEWG Report conducted during the 65
th
SEA Regional Committee Meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 7 Sept. 2012
2.3
Regional Resolution SEARC65R3 Consultative Expert Working Group
on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination adopted
during 65
th
SEA Regional Committee Meeting
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“To engage actively in the negotiations in an open- ended meeting of Member States in November 2012,
inter alia, by supporting the development of the Global Health RD Observatory, effective global RD
coordination, adequate and sustainable funding for RD on diseases of Type II and III and specific RD
needs of diseases of Type I in developing coun
tries”
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3.1 Conduct of country studies in Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia to document existing norms and standards followed in the
classification of health RD activities; to identify current and future priorities for
RD for health products and to identify project which need to be implemented in
order to develop and deliver priority health products
3.2 Conduct of Regional Consultation for
Developing a Strategic Workplan as a follow-up of the Report of the
Consultative Expert Working group CEWG on Research and
Development: Financing and Coordination held in Bangkok, Thailand
on 25-26 July 2013
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The participants of the Regional Consultation presented 6 recommendations for the development of
norms and standards for the classification of health RD towards setting-up of RD observatories. These
include, among others, the following:
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a. Setting-up of a national RD observatory to
collect, analyse, coordinate, prioritize and monitor RD resource flows from the public and
private sectors; b.
Member States may develop modalities and identify institutional entities to develop,
establish, maintain and manage health RD observatories;
c. Member States may pilot-test the proposed
classification grid for norms and standards for RD in terms of diseases, product development
and policy. In the same meeting, 7 potential priority areas for
RD demonstration projects were identified and ranked.
