WELCOME TO ACWH

Workshop on

Public Health: International Trade and Domestic Legal Issues


October 16 and 17, 2008

Taipei, TAIWAN


Venue: Gis convention Center / NTU,  Michelangelo Hall

集思會議中心/台大館, 米開朗基羅廳


Program

October 16, 2008 (Thursday)


Registration

9:40-9:50

Opening

Professor Chang-Fa Lo, College of Law, National Taiwan University

Dr. Tzay-Jinn Chen, Deputy Minister, Department of Health

9:50-12:00

Speaker: Ambassador Manickam Supperamaniam, Malaysia

Topic: TRIPS AGREEMENT- Implications to the Pharmaceutical Sector

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:20

Speaker: Professor Sufian Jusoh, NCCR Research Fellow, The World Trade Institute

Topic: Free Trade Agreements and Implications on Public Health – An Analysis of FTA of Selected ASEAN Member Countries

Speaker: Professor Tsai-yu Lin林彩瑜教授, Professor of Law, Department of International Business, Soochow University, Taiwan

Topic: Arbitrating Transnational Disease Controls? Considerations on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms under the WHO International Health Regulations

15:20-15:40

Break

15:40-17:30

Speaker: Professor Bryan Mercurio, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Topic: Access to Essential Medicines: A Holistic Approach

Speaker: Professor Pei-kan Yang楊培侃教授, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Financial and Economic Law, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Topic: Data Exclusivity and Implications on Access to Medicines: Canada's Reactions to NAFTA, TRIPS and beyond


October 17, 2008 (Friday)

10:00-12:00

Speaker: Professor Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania

Topic: Atypical Pneumonia and Exceptional Law: The Legal Response to SARS and the Development of State of Emergency Law in China

Speaker: Dr. Chuan-feng吳全峰博士, Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Topic: The Protection of the Right to Health under the International Trade Regime

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Speaker: Professor Henry Gao, Faculty of Law, Singapore Management University

Topic: Who Moved Our Milk? A Primer on the Domestic and International Legal Issues in the Contaminated Milk Case in China

Speaker: Professor Chang-fa羅昌發教授, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Topic: Food Safety Issues under WTO: Problems arising from“Poisonous Milk Power” and Possible Solutions

15:30-16:00

Closing