Betti Marenko and Jilly Traganou, co-editors of “Design in the Pandemic: Dispatches from the Early Months,” use a design perspective to discuss how inventive and localized strategies around the world emerged to handle the challenges posed by COVID-19.
Burcu Kilic, research director for Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program, discusses the complex web of COVID-19 intellectual property protection, and the new possibilities of emerging manufacturing capacity in the Global South.
K.M. Gopakumar, Senior Research and Legal Advisor at Third World Network, discusses the implications of the new patent vaccine waiver introduced in the WTO and how countries like India face political, technical, and policy constraints in accessing medicine.
Pandemic Discourses launches a new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," which will interview advocates about the politics and struggle of access to medicines.
