4 November 2021
During the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR), Dr. Katrina Perehudoff and co-author Dr. Jennifer Sellin presented their commissioned report on Innovation and Access to Medicines.
Their report discusses the tensions between the TRIPS Agreement and International Human Rights Law as they apply to pharmaceuticals, and how those tensions have played out in the COVID-19 pandemic. They identify some opportunities for systemic integration, and ask questions about the unsolved issues around states’ extraterritorial human rights obligations and pharmaceutical companies’ responsibilities.
Their report was one in a series of reports, commissioned under the theme ‘Global Health Law Disrupted: Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis’.
Katrina Perehudoff would like to thank Prof. Em. Willem van Genugten, Prof. Brigit Toebes and her co-authors.