Detailed agenda
FRIDAY
All events Friday will be held at Boalt Hall School of Law, room 105 (corner of Bancroft and Piedmont)
5:00 Registration Opens
6:00 Welcome
• UC Berkeley Host Committee
6:15 Opening Address: Keeping UAEM Connected to the Field
• Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Chair of the UAEM Board of Directors
7:00 Crisis in the Field: The Fight for Access to Essential Medicines
• Dr. Buddhi Lokuge, U.S Manager, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Doctors Without Borders/MSF
8:30 Dinner on Your Own
UAEM project groups dine together
SATURDAY
8:00 Registration opens and breakfast [Boalt 105]
8:00-9:00 Chapter Leaders Welcome Breakfast
• Gloria Tavera, University of Florida
• Taylor Gilliland, University of California, San Diego
Each chapter is encouraged to have their leader or another representative join our Chapter Support Co-Coordinators for breakfast to discuss how we can best enable your chapter to reach its goals. Also, this will be a great opportunity for you to network with other chapter leaders from across the country and the world and to help us design outreach strategies that benefit all of you.
9:00-9:15 Welcome [Boalt 105]
1. Overview of Weekend
2. Introduction of Chapters
3. Introduction of Coordinating Committee and Board of Directors
9:20-10:00 State of the UAEM [Boalt 105]
• Ethan Guillen, UAEM Executive Director
In this talk Ethan will discuss where we are in our campaign, the successes of our past year and where we are going.
10:15-11:00 Getting to know the issues
Introductory Track Part 1: The Problem: An Introduction to the Innovation and Access Gaps [Boalt 105]
• Amy Kapczynski, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Amy Kapczynski, founder of UAEM, will talk about the problems that underlie UAEM’s mission, that is the access to medicines crisis and the neglected disease crisis. She will give an overview UAEM’s history and UAEM’s approach to these crises.
Advanced Track (Concurrent)
(A) Patent Pools and UNITAID
• Judit Rius Sanjuan, Knowledge Ecology International
• Sam Houshower, J.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
Patent pools in general and the UNITAID patent pool specifically provide amazing opportunities for improving access to medicines in developing countries. Judit and Sam will discuss the background of pools and how you can take action on your campus.
(B) Implementing Access Metrics
• Louis Fazen, Yale Medical School
• Jessica Berwick, Yale Medical School
Bucky and Jess will present the ongoing work of the Access Metrics Initiative, including the development of access-oriented metrics for implementation in Technology Transfer Offices. The Access Metrics Index seeks to provide a means of monitoring technology transfer licensing practices, ensure new incentive structures for access-oriented licensing, and hold universities accountable for their current licensing practices. Over the past year, the Metrics Initiative has created an initial index of access metrics and is organizing a symposium of academics, TTOs, and university administrators. The metrics project hopes to present its current Access Metrics Index at the symposium for discussion and to gain university sponsors for a pilot project of implementing the new metrics within a select group of TTOs. Please come to share your ideas on what indicators a new access-oriented metrics for technology transfer might include.
11:15-12:00 Getting to know the issues II
Introductory Track Part 2: Intellectual Property Made Ridiculously Simple [Boalt 105]
• Michael Steffen, Yale Law School
Michael Steffen, a long time UAEM member and Yale law student, will take the complex issue of intellectual property and make it simple and interesting. You will learn about TRIPS, Indian patent law, the Doha Declaration, access licensing and more.
Advanced Track (Concurrent)
(A) Addressing Neglected Diseases
• Patricia Kretz, Medical Resident, University of British Columbia Medical School
• Sunny Kishore, M.D./PhD Candidate, Cornell Medical School
Sunny and Patricia have been organizing UAEM neglected tropical disease initiatives over the past year. Sunny will open this talk by explaining the challenge of addressing NTDs, the importance of the issue, and global efforts at increase research and innovation for NTDs. Patricia will follow by outlining UAEM’s many exciting NTD projects, and how local chapters can get involved in increasing the amount of research on NTDs at their university.
(B) The Ask: Beyond the EAL, What is a Global Access License?
• Dave Chokshi, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, UAEM Board of Directors
• Michael Steffen, Yale Law School, UAEM Board of Directors
• Amy Kapczynski, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
UAEM’s global access licensing campaign has thus far employed two major advocacy documents: (1) The Equitable Access License (EAL) - the model legal language we suggest university tech transfer offices use in their licenses to ensure global access to technologies; and (2) The Philadelphia Consensus Statement (PCS) - a concise set of recommendations for improving global health via accessible and appropriate university technology development. UAEM has now added a further document that moves beyond the EAL. We will examine the strengths and shortcomings of these campaigning tools, and discuss our present and future advocacy goals for university tech transfer. Join in and help shape UAEM’s demands.
12:15-1:15 Regional lunch [Steinhart Courtyard]
• Gloria Tavera, University of Florida
• Taylor Gilliland, University of California, San Diego
Join your region to discuss how to best collaborate over lunch.
1:30-2:20 Panel: Campus campaign presentations [Boalt 105]
Come hear how other chapters are achieving UAEM’s mission at their university. Get ideas and be inspired! Chapters young and old, be sure not to miss these talks.
• University of Florida: Gloria Tavera
• Harvard University: Neha Gupta
• University of British Columbia: Andrew Gray and Mike Gretes
• University of California Berkeley: Eleanor Blume
2:30-5:15 AID: Activism trainings (Concurrent) [Boalt 105]
Part 1: Goal visioning, Power mapping, Escalation Strategies
Part 2: Break into geographic and individual school groups to plan campaigns [Boalt 121, 122, 123, 124]
Part 3: Come back together to share plans
• Sam Schabacker, Americans for Informed Democracy
• Gloria Tavera, University of Florida
• Laura Helmkamp, University of Florida
• Taylor Gilliland, University of California, San Diego, School of Biomedical Sciences
Ever wondered how to design an effective campus campaign strategy, or what the next steps are if you’ve started your campaign? Sam Schabacker, a National Organizer for Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), and CC members will be giving you the training necessary to identify clear goals for your campaign and identify who is ultimately responsible for implementing policy changes. Then we will plan how you can influence those targets through campus actions that are specific, achievable, and measurable, and how to escalate your efforts to get your demands met. During this session each chapter will have the ability to develop their own strategy, to network with other chapters in the region, and to share their plans with others.
5:30 - 6:30 Chapter Poster Session [Boalt Hallway]
• Kaye Phillips, University of Toronto introducing the session
UAEM chapter leaders from across United States, Canada and Europe will showcase their campaign strategies, stats, past events, and planned activities. The session will allow for all participants to network and build new approaches for campaigning and advocacy across campuses.
6:30-9:00 Dinner on your own
Coordinating Committee and Board Dinner
10:00-1:00 UAEM Party at Henry’s
2600 Durant Avenue
SUNDAY
8:00-9:45 Coordinating Committee Breakfast Meeting
9:30 Breakfast [Boalt 105]
10:00 - 11:00 Panel: Implementing Global Access in University Technology Transfer [Boalt 105]
• Carol Mimura (Director, Office of Technology Licensing, UC Berkeley) – Dr. Mimura helped draft the Berkeley Nine Points (detail to follow) and has been a key advocate for global access within the UC system.
• Jill Sorensen (Independent Tech Transfer Consultant, former Director of the Office of Licensing and Technology Development at The Johns Hopkins University) – Dr. Sorensen has been a key advisor to UAEM-Hopkins, and is presently working as an independent consultant in tech transfer and global health.
Two University Tech Transfer Professionals will present their direct experiences in implementing global access strategies at Universities. This Panel will provide a forum for diverse UAEM chapters to discuss strategic and tactical considerations when approaching your Technology Transfer Office. Together, as advocates and front-line tech transfer professionals, we will examine the most effective means of pitching, implementing and measuring the success of our demands for global access to university discoveries.
11:10-11:50 Panels (Concurrent)
International University Patenting, Bayh-Dole and Current Trends
• David Winickoff, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society, University of California, Berkeley
• Eleanor Blume, J.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
The Bayh-Dole Act, implemented in 1980, broadly shapes the technology transfer activities in universities. Now the Bayh-Dole act is being pushed abroad as well despite potential shortcomings. Here you can hear about the future of the Act.
Compulsory Licensing and its Lessons for the A2M Movement
• Peter Maybarduk, Attorney, Essential Action
• Kaye Phillips, MA, PhD Student, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
As pharmaceutical companies step up patent registration and enforcement worldwide, compulsory licenses – orders issued by governments to authorize generic competition with patented medicines – are ever-more important tools for reducing prices and promoting access to medicines for all. Yet political pressure from pharmaceutical companies and the United States, myths about compulsory licensing rules, and patent uncertainty have each made it more difficult for developing countries to take advantage of their compulsory licensing rights. Kaye Philips presents her research into the Thai case, while Peter Maybarduk discusses his experiences working with governments and civil society groups in the Americas. Learn the essentials of compulsory licensing, the lessons countries’ experiences offer for the broader A2M movement, and how you can help.
Global Happenings: R&D Treaty and IGWG
• Judit Rius Sanjuan, Knowledge Ecology International
• Sara Crager, MD/PhD Candidate, Yale Medical School
Global negotiations at the WHO have lead to a global strategy and plan of action that confronts the issues of access and innovation with new solutions to intractable problems. Judit and Sara will discuss the big plans moving ahead and how UAEM is engaging.
12:15 Keynote: Stephen Lewis [GPB 100]
• Introduction by Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, President and Chair of the UAEM Board of Directors
1:15-1:30 Closing remarks [GPB 100]
