Publications


Books

Los retos de futuras pandemias
Entre la política y la ciencia
¿Hacia dónde va la salud mundial?

Editorial B de f, South Centre, Ginebra, 2024
Autor: Germán Velásquez
Les défis des futures pandémies
Enjeux politiques et négociations internationales

L’Harmattan; South Centre, Genève, 2024
Auteur: Germán Velásquez
El debate sobre la exención de los derechos de propiedad intelectual en tiempos de pandemia

 South Centre, CEIDIE, Ginebra, 2023
Autores: Alejandra Aoun, Juan Correa, Martín A. Cortese, Vanesa Lowenstein, Sandra C. Negro, Guillermo E. Vidaurreta
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Policy Briefs

The WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body process and the revised draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement (A/INB/9R/3)
Policy Brief 128, 25 April 2024

Nirmalya Syam & Viviana Muñoz Tellez
WTO MC13: TRIPS Issues and Technology Transfer
Policy Brief 125, 12 February 2024

Viviana Muñoz Tellez & Nirmalya Syam
The WHO CA+ Discussions on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing: State of Play
Policy Brief 123, 14 December 2023

Nirmalya Syam

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Research Papers

Application de l’Exception Bolar: Différentes approches dans le droit de l’UE
Document de Recherche No. 214, 20 mars 2025

Par Dmytro Doubinsky
Application of the Bolar Exception: Different Approaches in the EU
Research Paper 214, 15 January 2025

By Dmytro Doubinsky

Equity and Pandemic Preparedness: Navigating the 2024 Amendments to the International Health Regulations
Research Paper 206, 28 August 2024

By Nirmalya Syam

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SouthNews

Patents and Health on the Global Agenda: WIPO’s 36th Session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents Tackles Access to Medicines
SouthNews No. 513, 27 November 2024

Eduardo Vodanovic Undurraga
The Africa Group emphasizes that a new WHO pandemic agreement must be founded on equity
SouthNews No. 511, 5 November 2024
The WHO Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Resume This Week: The Group of Equity highlights priorities
SouthNews No. 510, 4 November 2024
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SouthViews

Lessons for the Global South from U.S. Legislation on Patent Thickets
SouthViews No. 272, 8 August 2024

By Nirmalya Syam

Proposal for a new Article 11bis in the WHO Pandemic Accord: a Pandemic Technology Transfer Mechanism
SouthViews No. 261, 23 April 2024

by Olga Gurgula and Luke McDonagh

¿Adónde va el tratado internacional vinculante negociado en la OMS contra futuras pandemias?
SouthViews No. 259, 15 de Marzo de 2024

Por Germán Velásquez
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Training Papers

Propiedad intelectual y acceso a medicamentos: una introducción a cuestiones clave – algunos términos y conceptos básicos
Material de Capacitación 1, Junio 2021

Por Germán Velásquez
Propriété Intellectuelle et Accès aux Médicaments : Une Introduction aux Grandes Problématiques – Quelques Termes et Concepts de Base
Documents de Formation 1, Août 2020

Par Germán Velásquez
Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines: An Introduction to Key Issues – Some Basic Terms and Concepts
Training Paper 1, December 2019

Dr. Germán Velásquez
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Statements

Ongoing Negotiation of a Pandemic Accord: South Centre’s Intervention to WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
18 September 2024
South Centre Statement to the Sixty-Fifth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO (2024)
10 July 2024
South Centre Statement on the Amendment to the International Health Regulations
May 2024
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Other Publications

Scope of Compulsory License and Government Use of Patented Medicines

Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Programme, South Centre
Table, June 2025
MATRIX OF KEY ISSUES IN THE WTO TRIPS COUNCIL

Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Programme, South Centre
June 2023
Submission by the South Centre to the USITC hearing on Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics
17 March 2023
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