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21 Brown J. World Aff. 223 (2014-2015)
Improving the Incentive of the FDA Voucher Program for Neglected Tropical Diseases

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa21 and id is 485 raw text is: Improving the Incentives of the FDA Voucher Program for Neglected Tropical Diseases CAMERON GRAHAM ARNOLD Master's Student London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine THOMAS POGGE Director of Global Justice Program Yale University THE LARGEST EBOLA OUTBREAK TO date-first detected in December 2013 and still ongoing as of April 2015-has cast new light on the shortfalls of 223 international public health systems.' As in previous health crises, scrutiny has reemerged over the pharmaceutical industry's ability and willingness to innovate new medicines for underserved disease areas. The public debate has intensified following revelations that promising drug candidates to treat Ebola had gone undeveloped despite compelling preclinical results.2 This lack of development is especially troubling because it occurred after a recently implemented U.S. incentive scheme-the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) tropical disease priority review voucher program-designed to counteract exactly this problem. CAMERON GRAHAM ARNOLD is currently completing a Masters of Science in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a focus in health economics. He has nearly five years of experience working in various analytical roles within the biopharmaceutical industries in Denmark and the United Kingdom. Arnold is the recipient of two Richard U. Light Fellowships and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, where he majored in East Asian literature and Mandarin Chinese. He will matriculate to medical school in fall 2015. THOMAS POGGE is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University. He holds part-time positions at King's College London and the Universities of Oslo and Central Lancashire. Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science, as well as President of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) and of Incentives for Global Health. Pogge's recent publications include Politics as Usual (Polity 2010); World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity 2008); and Freedom fom Poverty as a Human Right (Oxford & UNESCO 2007). Copyright @ 2015 by the Brown Journal ofWorldAfairs SPRING/SUMMER 2015 * VOLUME XXI, ISSUE II

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