magazine title

Pennsylvania Law and International Affairs Journal

abstract

In December 2021, the World Health Assembly (“WHA”) convened to develop a Pandemic Response Convention to prepare for future pandemics. Unfortunately, as currently envisioned, the resulting pandemic response framework will suffer from many of the same deficiencies that prevented existing frameworks from responding effectively to COVID-19. I’m going to have to hold it. New pandemic threats emerging in the future, as well as new variant threats emerging today, require more integrated, robust, and comprehensive solutions.

This article provides a blueprint for that solution. A global multilateral council will be empowered to (1) investigate the ongoing pandemic; (2) Encourage pharmaceutical companies to quickly manufacture and share vaccines through voluntary licensing or TRIPS mandatory licensing provisions. (3) facilitate the rapid construction of raw material pipelines to vaccine and therapeutic developers; and

(4) resolve relevant legal disputes and ensure a rapid and coordinated response to emerging diseases and variants;

Recommended citations

Arjun Padmanabhan & Tanner J. Wadsworth,
Post-pandemic order: A blueprint for balancing health and intellectual property interests in the age of COVID-1910

pen. St. JL & International Affiliates

1 (2022).

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