Report launch of The people's prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public health

Learn more about the launch of the report: The People's Prescription report calls for a transformation of the health innovation system

Read the report: The people's prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value.

This report is intended to spur policymakers into action by providing ideas, principles and policy proposals to create a better health innovation system that delivers innovative medicines for all who need them. After articulating the key problems of the current model of pharmaceutical innovation (e.g. public health needs unmet, high prices, lack of transparency, and an increasingly financialised business model), the report presents key principles that would underpin a public-interest and health-driven approach to pharmaceutical innovation: directed mission setting, collaboration and transparency, affordability and access, and long-term horizons. The remedies that follow are divided into two parts:  first identifying immediate actions that governments can take to tackle the urgent crisis in patient access to medicines, and then a transformative approach based on mission-oriented research and innovation, learning from experiments across the world. 

Read The people's prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value.

The report launch will be chaired by:

Lord Jim O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House; formerly Chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance

The report will be presented by: 

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL, and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose  

Followed by a panel discussion with:

Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation

Dr Charles Clift, Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security; Founding Chairman, Medicines Patent Pool

Dr Mariângela Simão, Assistant Director-General for Drug Access, Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals, World Health Organisation

Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Co-Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Founding Director, NICE International