WHO Executive Board Addresses R&D Agenda Items In Preparation For World Health Assembly

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Jana Armstrong, a consultant for GHTC, discusses R&D agenda items for the WHO Executive Board meeting that took place at the end of January in preparation for the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in May. During the meeting, the Executive Board also “put forward three resolutions for consideration at the WHA in May that have clauses related to R&D.” Armstrong includes discussion of the follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG) on R&D (2/5).

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