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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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The Case for Procurement Transparency

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

To allocate COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) identified ethical goals for prioritization, such as maximizing benefit and minimizing harm, mitigating health inequities, and reciprocity.

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Data Lights the Path Toward Ethical COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The following is a guest article by Kurt Waltenbaugh, CEO at Carrot Health.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. Even those relying on a new type of vaccine technology, such as mRNA vaccines , resulted from well over a decade of R&D in mRNA vaccinology and used vaccine components that were developed well before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research

Health Law Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

During a recent Q&A, a representative with the World Health Organization warned that the Omicron variant is not the last of its kind. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove explained that the next variant is likely to be more transmissible and could be more deadly than any of the previous variants.

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Building on Siracusa to develop new human rights principles for public health emergencies Once again, the ICJ played a leading role in collaboration with the Global Health Law Consortium in drafting the PH Principles—released alongside the World Health Assembly in May 2023.

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

Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

Current vaccine and treatment inequity was not inevitable. Early on in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed IP owners voluntarily license IP to others to ensure affordable COVID treatments. Existing international and domestic IP rules allow IP owners to voluntarily share their IP rights.

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COVID-19 Update: More Reflections on a Pandemic

Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

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.

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COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As showed in a policy-brief by GI-ESCR , this situation might amount to a violation of the right to health under domestic constitutional and international law.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This symposium gathers reflections from leading scholars, activists, jurists, and others from around the world with respect to the recently issued Principles. Historically, Global Health Law has been permeated with colonialism and concerned with preserving travel and trade rather than protecting human dignity, health and life.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

Judge Zione Ntaba’s contribution highlights how courts in Malawi decided cases relating to the Government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic , including, in particular, the provision of social security measures in parallel with lockdown measures, and the policy proposals relating to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

They'll explain how it's now positioned to move beyond mere immunization status and toward a larger approach to interoperable health records. And they'll show how, through an upcoming collaboration with the World Health Organization and the G20, those advancements can soon be expanding globally.

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Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. AI can bring benefits , including cost reduction, error avoidance, and innovative upside.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. They aim to deliver 2 billion doses by the end of 2021 equitably amongst all the 172 participating countries, resulting in around 25% of the global population getting vaccinated.

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2016, the Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the existing worldwide health-system architecture to be strengthened with an empowered, well-governed, sustainably financed, and accountable World Health Organization at its apex, and efficient, equitable, and resilient national health systems at its foundation.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

An estimated 500,000 patents were pledged under the Open COVID Pledge, with over a million more pledged under a similar Japanese effort. Like the Open COVID Pledge before it, Moderna’s pledge expressly states that it is valid only “ while the pandemic continues. Pfizer made such a vaccine. Moderna’s Pledge.

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

HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the rate of reporting of safety data has been unprecedented with the EMA reporting a 93% increase in the volume of adverse event reports reported in 2021 compared to 2020 1. . New advances in technology (e.g.,

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Public Health Category This category would establish a percentage to be applied to the existing supply of vaccine at a determinable point in time (e.g., an either agreed-upon or to be agreed-upon date after a transnational epidemic or pandemic is declared by a reference institution, such as the World Health Organization).

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. The World Health Organization estimates that in the majority of African countries, there is one hospital per one million people, one doctor per 10,000 people and one hospital bed per 10,000 people.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. This post was originally published on the Verfassungsblog as part of our joint symposium on international pandemic lawmaking. By Ilja Richard Pavone.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

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APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles) do not make explicit reference to infodemics, the application of digital technologies in response to a public health emergency is a clear concern.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. Around the same time, it poured billions of dollars to accelerate vaccine development, without obtaining a single contractual commitment to protect global access.

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COVID-19 Update: Omicron- The New Variant of the Coronavirus

Health Law Pulse

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On Friday, November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) reported a new variant of COVID-19, the Omicron variant, was detected in South Africa. There is no indication the new variant is more contagious or more lethal, or that it is resistant to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

All of this might make sense in a world where COVID has gradually become less prevalent and less of threat. But, if that world exists, it is somewhere in another dimension.

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Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID

Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

This week marks the two-year anniversary of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. By Chloe Reichel, Marissa Mery, and Michael Ashley Stein.

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Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights Principles: A Solidarity Approach

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

the principles encourage international cooperation, “including measures for technical and economic cooperation, and equitable access to health goods, facilities, services and technologies.” The World Health Organizations (WHO) agreements are central in this context.” For example, in Article 2.2,

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How Misinformation in Health Care Can Lead to Being “Dead Wrong” — KFF and Dr. G Connect the Dots

Health Populi

AUGUST 31, 2023

The phenomenon of medical mis-information accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, normalizing weird anti-science and culminating in the rejection among many U.S. health citizens of the vaccine fast-tracked to address the worst effects of the coronavirus. KFF fielded the study in May and June 2023, finding that most U.S.

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Biden Administration Unveils Long-Awaited COVID-19 Rules For Large Employers and Healthcare Workers

Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

An employee is considered “fully vaccinated” two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine with, if applicable, at least the minimum interval between doses as recommended by the CDC, World Health Organization (“WHO”), or if administered as a part of a clinical trial.

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Considerations from Argentina on the Judicial Control of Public Health Policies

Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

The Argentine case: suspension of pediatric vaccination COVID-19 On November 30, 2022, Federal Court No. 4 of Mar del Plata decided the case “Carrillo Couhez, María Alicia Noemí and Others v/ National Executive Power and others/ Collective Amparo” (File No. SB/LC/JGI/VC 14056/2022).

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Health Care Compliance Brief

COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

The Case for Procurement Transparency

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

How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Data Lights the Path Toward Ethical COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution

Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research

Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

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

COVID-19 Update: More Reflections on a Pandemic

COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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

What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency

Reclaiming Global Public Health

COVID-19 Update: Omicron- The New Variant of the Coronavirus

4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID

Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights Principles: A Solidarity Approach

How Misinformation in Health Care Can Lead to Being “Dead Wrong” — KFF and Dr. G Connect the Dots

Biden Administration Unveils Long-Awaited COVID-19 Rules For Large Employers and Healthcare Workers

Considerations from Argentina on the Judicial Control of Public Health Policies

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