MSF Report Examines Gaps In, Offers Policy Recommendations For Medical R&D

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: With biomedical research driven by profit rather than need, MSF examines why innovation fails to address world’s biggest health problems
Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses a recently released report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), “examining the impacts of priorities currently driving pharmaceutical research and development, as well as ways to enable, incentivize, and ensure innovations that address the most pressing, but currently neglected infectious disease challenges globally…” (5/4).

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