Introduction: access to essential medicines: public health and international law Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. International Trade: 1. TRIPS and essential medicines: must one size fit all? Making the WTO responsive to the global health crisis Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss; 2. The TRIPS waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon; 3. Public law challenges to the regulation of pharmaceutical patents in the US Bilateral Free Trade Agreements Hitoshi Nasu; 4. Global health and development: patents and public interest Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng; Part II. Innovation: 5. The Health Impact Fund: boosting innovation without obstructing free access Thomas Pogge; 6. The Health Impact Fund: a critique Kathleen Liddell; 7. A prize system as a partial solution to the health crisis in the developing world William W. Fisher and Talha Syed; 8. Innovation and insufficient evidence: the case for a WTO-WHO agreement on health technology safety and cost-effectiveness evaluation Thomas Faunce; Part III. Intellectual Property: 9. Opening the dam: patent pools, innovation, and access to essential medicines Dianne Nicol and Jane Nielsen; 10. Open source drug discovery: a revolutionary paradigm or a utopian model? Krishna Ravi Srinivas; 11. Accessing and benefit sharing avian influenza viruses through the World Health Organization: a CBD and TRIPS compromise thanks to Indonesia's sovereignty claim? Charles Lawson and Barbara Hocking; 12. The Lazarus effect: the (RED) campaign and creative capitalism Matthew Rimmer; Part IV. Health-Care: 13. Beyond TRIPS: the role of non-state actors and access to essential medicines Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky; 14. Securing health through rights Katharine Young; 15. The role of national laws in reconciling constitutional right to health with TRIPS obligations: an examination of the Glivec patent case in India Rajshree Chandra; 16. Tipping point: Thai compulsory licenses redefine essential medicines debate Jonathan Burton-MacLeod.

'This is a well edited collection from leading international scholars on the subject of global health, one that provides a comprehensive analysis on the role of innovation in promoting health. Although the literature on this subject is vast, this volume presents new and challenging insights. Short, focussed chapters cover a good breadth of topics and shed fresh and clear light on the public side of the debate on access to essential medicines … this book is a valuable volume that will inform and stimulate academics, health campaigners, policy makers and students.' Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, British Yearbook of International Law