Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

This two-day workshop on the Health Impact Fund, a proposed new mechanism to pay for pharmaceutical innovation, will help disseminate a wide range of research evidence about the important issue of innovation, access to medicines and global justice to people who can act upon it in their work and daily lives. It will provide a focal point to bring together disparate communities of actors around a particular policy problem they are all facing, and provide the impetus for packaging findings from a successful research program involving hundreds of academics around the world for new, non-academic audiences. We believe the event will help inform public policymaking in Canada and around the world, as well as guide future research directions, bring together new research teams, and foster productive partnerships with policymakers, civil society organizers, industry executives, union leaders, and journalists. The workshop will be held from November 14-15, 2014.