‘A difficult and delicate thing’: the complex history of health equity fuels coming House committee report

In the first of a three-part series about the relationship between health equity and intellectual property, The Hill Times sets up the historic forces that shaped the vaccine rollout.
NDP MP Heather McPherson attends a House Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee meeting on Sept. 26. The committee is set to deliver a report later this fall on its study of vaccine equity and intellectual property.
At a May 9 meeting of the House Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, NDP MP Heather McPherson has only a few seconds left in her time. She interjects to land one more question to the witness, pressing for answers about Canada's approach to supporting global vaccine access. “Th...

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