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H.R. 3 is the Wrong Policy for the Wrong Problem
10 September 2021
…of pre-existing mRNA platforms that allowed for the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines. These positive externalities must be considered when evaluating a policy such as H.R. 3, which could have…
The CBO Doesn’t Understand Investors
13 September 2021
…have adverse consequences for population health—both in the US and globally. In the face of rapid scientific progress, such as we have seen with the development of COVID-19 vaccines and…
CBO Doesn’t Capture The Real Impact of H.R. 3 on Innovation
14 September 2021
…can be redeployed in lots of areas – for example the mRNA technology that underpins some of the successful Covid-19 vaccines was developed for use in cancer. Reductions in the…
Virtual OHE Annual Lecture 2021: Do Patents Work? Evidence from Pharmaceutical Innovation
14 October 2021, 1:00pm
…remain a contentious tool in innovation policy, as seen in the current debate over the proposed patent waiver for COVID vaccines, she will also discuss the empirical evidence concerning alternatives…
Opportunity Cost in Health Care: a Favourite Research Topic for OHE
23 November 2021
…opportunity costs beyond health. To this end, we’ve recently been researching how different government departments value life. Most recently, we’ve been exploring the role of vaccines in maintaining health system…
OHE Innovation Policy Prize
18 May 2022
…delivers for each and every one of us. The record-breaking development of multiple COVID-19 vaccines, potential curative gene therapies for spinal muscular atrophy, or even the antibiotics which enables medicine…
Finance of Medical Research
7 January 1964
…work gave rise to the study of infections and the processes of immunity leading to the development of vaccines and serum treatment and culminated in the discovery and development of…
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Recent Trends, Future Prospects
1 October 1983
…effective vaccines has not, however, been restricted to tuberculosis alone: notifications data (Table 1) and mortality statistics (Table 2) indicate that there have also been major reductions in the incidence…
AIDS Virus: Forecasting Its Impact
1 December 1986
…the nation’ (Acheson 1986). Reconciliation of the two seemingly conflicting perspectives outlined above is. however, straightforward. AIDS is a new disease in man that is invariably lethal. Effective vaccines and…