Planned Equitable Access
Equitable Access (EA), also known as Global Access, aims to make healthcare technologies available and affordable to all, with a particular emphasis on lower and middle income countries. The ‘EA’ principal can be more broadly applied to other sectors; it is then sometimes referred to as Responsible Access.
Tools for Public Research Organisations (PROs)
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Embedding EA in Policy and Practice FAQ for PROs
A series of 15 FAQs on how and why PROs might consider introducing and implementing Equitable Access into their institution at the level of policy and practice.
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Guidelines for Research Organisations on Embedding Equitable Access to Health-related Technologies into Policy and Practice
Guidelines covering the rationale for adopting a policy, the questions to be addressed with stakeholders, the process of development and consultation and ultimately the details that may need to be inserted into the policy itself or adopted into a license that reflects the policy.
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Equitable Technology Access Framework (ETAF 2021)
Developed by the UAEM (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines) group this framework lays out goals, and general principles for universities to adopt along with modalities of technology transfer and corresponding strategies to support Global Access to their research.
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GAL Toolkit (UAEM)
This very comprehensive toolkit offers a set of licensing provisions and terms that can be utilized by public sector institutions, including funding agencies, universities, and research institutes, and included in license agreements with industry partners to ensure access and affordability of resulting health technologies in the developing world.
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AUTM Global Health Toolkit – Examples of Executed Licenses Clauses
A non-exhaustive set of examples of verbatim clauses related to global health issues, as extracted from license agreements successfully executed by U.S. universities.
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Early Action for Equitable Access: Protecting Access to Medicine in University Licensing (UAEM 2024)
Recent UAEM White Paper (2024). Examines current licensing practice in the context of the ETAF (see above) and proposes an FOI (Freedom of Information) advocacy toolkit.
Tools for Funding Agencies and Policy makers
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Guidelines for Funding Agencies on Embedding Equitable Access in Funding Programmes and Grant Schemes
Supports funding agencies to consider and adopt Equitable Access (EA) as part of their funding policy and to embed it into research grants.