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)
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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 |