Agenda
2019 Leaders Enabling Access to Pharmaceuticals (LEAP) Workshop
Public Citizen Headquarters, 1600 20th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009
The agenda for the 2019 LEAP Workshop can be viewed below and downloaded here.
Friday, November 1, 2019
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Continental breakfast served
9:00 - 9:20 AM
Welcome, overview, and participant introductions
Round robin introductions
9:20 - 10:30 AM
Overview of innovation and access to health technologies
Anthony So, IDEA (Innovation+Design Enabling Access) Initiative, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Zain Rizvi, Access to Medicines Project, Public Citizen
10:30 - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
Coffee served
10:45 - 11:30 AM
Drug pricing
Steve Knievel, Access to Medicines Project, Public Citizen
11:30 - 12:45 PM
Investigative tools
Peter Lurie, President, Center for Science in the Public Interest
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Lunch, patient perspectives
Manon Ress, Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment
Laura Marston, Intellectual Property Attorney and Patient Advocate for Affordable Insulin
1:45 - 2:45 PM
Transparency: R&D transparency and conflict of interest
Reshma Ramachandran, Doctors for America
Avanthi Jayaweera, American Medical Student Association
Break
2:45 - 3:00 PM
Breakout sessions
Hands-on use of transparency tools
3:00 - 5:30 PM
Saturday, November 2, 2019
9:00 AM
Continental breakfast served
Opioid panel
Josh Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Leana Wen, George Washington University School of Public Health
9:30 - 10:30 AM
10:30 - 12:00 PM
Report back
Breakout group facilitators and rapporteurs
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
Rob Weissman, President, Public Citizen
1:00 - 2:00 PM
R&D transparency
Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Advocacy tools
Matt Wellington, US PIRG
3:00 - 3:10 PM
Break
3:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Breakout sessions
Advocacy campaigns
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Report back and wrap-up
*Agenda is tentative and subject to change
