SHARED's President Joins WHO Team on

Public-Private Partnership Project

SHARED is pleased to announce that its President, Elizabeth A. Ziemba, has been contracted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to conduct research for WHO's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health.

The research project focuses on Public-Private Partnerships for Product Development. These partnerships have been created to discover and produce medicines to treat diseases of the developing world such as malaria and tuberculosis for which there is little or no commercial market. Her research focused on the financial, scientific, and managerial issues as challenges the the success of these partnerships.  Her report was submitted to the Commission in march 2005 and was presented at a conference in Geneva in May 2005.

Ms. Ziemba has participated as a member of the WHO team that worked on the Priority Medicines for Europe and the World project sponsored by the Dutch government during its presidency of the European Union. The Priority Medicines project focused on identifying gaps in healthcare both in the European Union countries as well as the developing world. Ms. Ziemba prepared a background paper regarding access to essential medicines in developing countries through public-private partnerships. The report was submitted by the Priority Medicines team to the European Union at a meeting in the Netherlands in November 2004.