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Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

Healthcare It News

First announced in January 2021, the Vaccine Credential Initiative – co-founded by MITRE Corporation and others including Cerner, Change Healthcare, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and others – has made big progress over the past year-plus on new approaches to interoperable record-keeping.

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The Case for Procurement Transparency

Bill of Health

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?

Bill of Health

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach

Bill of Health

can take a bigger step to promote global public health now. has offered to share technology associated with National Institutes of Health inventions to a WHO pool of patents. Current vaccine and treatment inequity was not inevitable. This is consistent with TRIPS flexibility to disclose such data.

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COVID-19 Update: More Reflections on a Pandemic

Health Law Pulse

A little over one week later, we reported that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after COVID-19 was detected in eighteen countries, infecting almost 10,000 people and killing more than two hundred. We have watched the United States declare a public health emergency.

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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions

HIT Consultant

Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. The pharmacovigilance teams have played a vital role in the safe, effective, and rapid rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. New advances in technology (e.g., References.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

Fielding calls from heads of state, they decided what vaccine deliveries to prioritize , shaping which countries could protect lives and livelihoods. The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need.