Reinventing our medical R&D system

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INTRODUCTION

The prices of new life-saving medicines have never been so high in the EU, putting our social security models, universal rights to care-access and national budgets at risk. Poor countries don't have the monopoly of care exclusion anymore. Who is responsible for this situation? More and more stakeholders point at our broken R&D model in the pharmaceutical sector: less real and needed innovation, less return on investment for publicly funded research because of private patenting and privatized benefits, more short-term pressure from the shareholders in the care sector. So what can be done at EU level? This is what you will hear in this conference.

AGENDA

9:30-10:40

Part I: overview of the current situation that leads to unaffordable medicines
(chair: Michèle Rivasi MEP)

• introduction by the Chair 
• presentation of the situation in Greece, by Panagiotis Kouroumplis, the Greek minister for health 
• presentation of the situation in Spain, by Elodie Besnier from Salud por Derecho 
• presentation of the situation in Germany, by Joerg Schaaber from BUKO Pharma-Kampagne
• Q&A session 
• closing remarks by the Chair

10:40-11:50

Part II: analysis of the roots of the current problems
(chair: Ernest Maragall MEP)

• introduction by the Chair 
• Comparison of the current situation in the EU and worldwide, by Helle Aagaard from MSF 
• Pharmaceutical research and market failures: a guideline, by Ignasi Belda, president and founder of Intelligent Pharma 
• The cost of medical research and the lack of transparency, by Gaëlle Krikorian, sociologist and intellectual property rights expert
• Q&A session
• closing remarks by the Chair

11:50-13:00

Part III: the possible solutions
(chair Michèle Rivasi)

• introduction by the Chair
• the consumers perspectives, by David Hammerstein from TACD 
• compulsory licensing, by Olivier Maguet from Médecins du Monde
• the voice of the European Commission, by Jérôme Boehm from DG SANTE 
• Q&A session 
• closing remarks by the Chair

At 18:30

we will screen the documentary "MEDICAL RESEARCH: HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM" by Salud por derecho, same room.

Registration

If you don't have access to the European Parliament, please register by sending the following information to sophie.perroud@ep.europa.eu :

- forename and name
- date of birth
- nationality
- type and number of ID