Publications: Philip Stevens

Health data and digital technologies will be essential for improving health outcomes across the globe beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Low- and middle-income nations, with fledgling digital health strategies and many barriers to overcome, stand to benefit the most.

Delinking the cost of R&D from the final prices of medicines and making governments the funders and planners of drug development would be rife with problems.

Separating the cost of biopharmaceutical research and development from the final market price of medicines would misalign incentives, raise bureaucratic costs, and limit innovation.

Seven case studies showcase how IP rights are enabling innovators in Latin America to help solve some of the greatest global health challenges.

The Trump administration’s trade strategy has largely taken aim at unfair trade practices in traditional industries. Yet, as Philip Stevens and Nigel Cory explain in The Hill, foreign actors are threatening another major component of the U.S. economy that we hear much less about: the theft of knowledge and IP in a wide variety of traditional and high-tech sectors.