Specific Objectives
- Illustrate how various people, organizations, companies and governments have approached a wide range of global health issues.
- Describe how different actors have addressed key elements of product development across a wide range of health interventions, such as complexity of IP, length and stage of development, costs and nature of manufacturing, purchasers and markets, regulatoryissues, distribution mechanisms and adoption hurdles.
- Persuade "potential stakeholders" to get involved by showing that their peers are already working on various problems and providing examples of how these problems could be addressed.
- Create efficiencies by describing what course of action and approaches have shown to work and where issues arise in the course of addressing a global health concern.
- Generate greater awareness of, and broaden support for, those people, organizations and governments that are spending time and resources on addressing global health concerns.
- Generate greater awareness of factors that impact a stakeholder's willingness or ability to be involved (or it's technology or funding to be utilized) in a given global health related activity, including the complexity of interactions, as well as changing competitive, economic and political environments.
- Identify gaps in global health and areas that require more attention and investment.
- Identify success stories, opportunities and challenges to innovation in developing countries.
- Initiate dialogue between/with global health actors to discuss how to overcome common barriers
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