>GLOBAL HEALTH for Biomedical Researchers: William Wells, TB Alliance >(((http://www.tballiance.org/home/home.php)) > >LOCATION: E25-117 > >TIME: Thursday, 3/11 @ 5-7PM > >Dinner will be provided. This event is sponsored by a Graduate Student Life >Grant and by the Public Service Center. > >Public Private Development Partnerships: In low income settings, there is vast >medical need but insufficient potential for profit. Product Development >Partnerships (PDPs) confront this market reality by bringing >together academia, >industry, public health experts, philanthropists and governments. >The end target >is to develop, and make available, a drug, diagnostic or vaccine >that addresses >a major burden of disease. We will talk about how PDPs work, and the challenge >of using these partnerships to achieve broad access at the country level. > > >About the Speaker: > >William Wells is Director, Market Access, at the TB Alliance with >responsibility >for planning and oversight of the TB Alliance's market readiness approach. The >resulting research, intelligence, analysis, and stakeholder engagement has an >end goal of ensuring successful adoption, availability, and affordability of >future products arising from the work of the TB Alliance and its strategic >partners. > >Prior to joining the TB Alliance in May 2007, Dr. Wells worked as a consultant >in Cambodia and Sudan for organizations including amfAR, CARE, UNFPA, UNICEF, >and WHO. The resulting evaluations and grant proposals helped guide and fund >HIV and maternal health projects. He has also worked previously as News >Director at Rockefeller University Press, where he established news >sections in >the Journal of Cell Biology and Journal of Experimental Medicine. >This built on >his previous work as a freelance science journalist with clients such as New >Scientist, Forbes magazine and the US National Academy of Sciences. > >A native of Australia, Dr. Wells received his Ph.D. in cell biology from the >University of California, San Francisco, and a Master of >International Affairs, >with a focus on economic and political development and public health, from >Columbia University in New York.
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