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“Smart Regulation for Medical Innovation” by Sir Jonathan Montgomery FMedSci (2023)

Abstract: Medical innovation is desirable for clinical and economic reasons, but there is no consensus on the best regulatory approach to promote it. The paradigm for the regulation of medical research is a gatekeeping system but in the era of increasingly personalised medicine and rapid technological development, this is perceived by some as an anachronistic barrier to scientific advance, an unjustified bureaucratic cost, and a mechanism that frustrates consumer expectations. Yet, in the...

Data Justice in One Digital Health

Timetable (時間表):English Version: Click here Program Booklet (会议手册): English Version: Click here Interpretation in English & Mandarin will be available (提供英語及普通話同聲) This meeting seeks to consider current trends in the digitalisation of One Health initiatives, particularly those directed at mitigating harms relating to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and their implications on data justice (using Linnet Taylor’s conception as a general reference point). Sub-themes that we hope to address in...

Solutions to the Global Health Crisis [CPD]

Objective, Coverage and Learning Outcomes:This public lecture aims to address the unequal distribution of diseases worldwide, particularly between wealthy and poor countries. The objective is to propose legal reforms to improve access to vaccines and medicines, reducing inequality and unnecessary loss of life. The lecture covers the influence of intellectual-property law on access to drugs and outlines the most promising reform proposals currently being considered by scholars and lawmakers....

Sept-Oct 2023 Issue

1. Events • WYNG-Hatton Lecture 2023: Smart Regulation for Medical Innovation (4 Dec) • Regulatory Governance of Emerging Health Technologies (Conference) (4-6 Dec) • Data Justice in One Digital Health (Conference) (7 & 8 Dec) 2. Journal Articles • "Implementing the Human Right to Science in the Regulatory Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" • "Generative AI and the Foregrounding of Epistemic Injustice in Bioethics" • "An Emergent Planetary Health Law" • "Patent Philanthropy"...

An emergent planetary health law

The health of the planet and its life forms are under threat from anthropogenic climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, and the extreme weather events, heatwaves and wildfires that accompany them. The burgeoning field of planetary health studies the interplay between humanity and the Earth’s biosphere and ecosystems on which human health depends. Scholarship on law from a planetary health vantage point remains scarce. This article fills this gap by delineating the conceptual building blocks of a planetary health law, which, in its latent form, is dispersed across various hard and soft sources of international environmental law and global health law that converge on the right to a healthy environment, and, to a lesser extent, rights of nature emerging in various domestic jurisdictions. It elucidates how the fragmented regimes of international environmental and global health law could be developed in more coherent ways, driven by an overarching concern for the integrity of the planetary foundations of life.

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