Report from the C-TAP Technical Advisory Group to the WHO C-TAP Secretariat on NIH licenses

Overview

WHO has established a global multi-disciplinary technical advisory group (TAG) to advise the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) on issues related to intellectual property, data, and technology sharing of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and other medical devices to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group is composed of 10 renowned experts with a diverse range of knowledge and expertise as clinicians and researchers working on COVID-19 health products; experts in access to medicines, diagnostics, vaccines and other health products; specialists of public health-oriented intellectual property; technology transfer experts; business development experts; experts in pricing, procurement, needs estimation and/or regulation of medicines.