Dr Luke McDonagh contributed to a recent TRT World Roundtable discussion with activist Fatima Hassan & MEP Kathleen Van Brempt concerning ways to address global vaccine inequity. During this Roundtable, Dr McDonagh spoke on the proposal, made by India and South Africa in October 2020, to waive IP rules under TRIPS Agreement to allow more vaccine production in global south countries. The TRIPS waiver proposal has the support of more than 100 countries, including the US and China, but crucially, not the UK and EU, which continue to block the measure at the WTO.
The full episode is available here: https://youtu.be/fXDt91tuq9g
Dr McDonagh, along with LSE colleague Dr Siva Thambisetty and three other academics, is a co-author of a LSE Law Working Paper on the TRIPS Waiver proposal that was cited by the world’s most prestigious scientific publication, Nature, in an editorial backing the TRIPS Waiver in May 2021. The LSE Working Paper is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3851737