Global Data Flows and the Implications for Health Access in Developing Countries
Current Berkman People and Projects 2017-07-05
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featuring HLS Professor Mark Wu
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Monday, July 24, 2017 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Harvard Global Health Institute Conference Room 42 Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138 RSVP required
Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World
This event is being sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Governments around the world are increasingly regulating the flow of cross-border data on the basis of privacy, security, and other public interest concerns. These policies take on a variety of forms, such as data localization requirements and obligations for service providers to make data available to law enforcement authorities under certain circumstances. What types of policies concerning cross-border data flows should developing countries be adopting and advocating to safeguard their interests, particularly with respect to health care? Join us for an open discussion.
About Global Access in Action Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts action-oriented research into access to lifesaving medicines, and alternative incentives for the development of medical treatments for underserved populations. Improving access and promoting socially beneficial innovation are key strategies for combatting the communicable disease burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable populations.
About the GAiA Brown Bag Series The GAiA brown bag series, "Conversations in Global Health, Innovation & the Digital World," is a collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute to facilitate discussion among researchers, scholars, practitioners, and others engaged in the development of legal and policy frameworks that govern innovation and global commercialization of medicines. The next brown bag event will be July 31st, and will feature GAiA Affiliate John Stubbs discussing Trump's America First Trade Agenda: What It Means for Access to Medicines.