Judit Rius,Attorney and Foreign Law Advisor, Knowledge Ecology International With commentary by JESSICA LITMAN, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law Abstract: The current system to finance drug development based on strong intellectual property rights is failing many in both developing and developed countries. The system promotes monopolies that make products unaffordable, and fails to provide incentives for urgently needed diagnostics and treatments for neglected diseases.

Tuesday, April 12The Science, Technology, and Society Program Presents Nancy Jacobs, Brown University Two Aging American Ornithologists at the End of European Empire in AfricaCo-sponsored by the Africa Workshop 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tisch Hall, Room 1014

Tuesday, March 15 The Program in the Environment Speaker Series and LSA Water Theme Semester Presents Donald Boesch 5:00pm - 6:00pm Exhibit Museum of Natural History, 1109 Geddes Ave. Donald Boesch is a professor of marine science at the University of Maryland and president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES).

The Program in the Environment Speaker Series and LSA Water Theme Semester Present Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Founder, Emission Blue Dr. Sylvia Earle is a National Geographic Explorer in Residence, and the Founder of Mission Blue. She is also the 2011 Goldring Family Distinguished Visiting Lecturer.

Sujatha Jesudason is the founder and Executive Director of Generations Ahead (http://www.generations- ahead.org/), an organization that seeks to advance a social justice perspective in the public policy debates on genetic technologies. She began working at the intersection of race, reproduction, and genetics at the Center for Genetics and Society in 2004, and has been active as an organizer, advocate, and researcher in communities of color and on women's liberation issues for over 19 years.

Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science & Civilization, and the Director of the James Martin Institute, Said Business School, University of Oxford Panel Discussion with Barry Rabe, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy/School of Natural Resources and Environment and Edward Parson, Law School, University of Michigan Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute

Dr. Kathleen M. Vogel is Assistant Professor of Peace Studies/Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University's Einaudi Center for International Studies. Prior to taking her current position, she was a William C. Foster Fellow with the Bureau of Nonproliferation in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction at the U.S. State Department. She has also served as Ed A.

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series David Vogel, Professor of Business Ethics and Political ScienceHaas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley Commentator: Barry Rabe, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan 4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Risk Science Center, University of Michigan Center for European Studies-European Union Center

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series Michele Garfinkel, Policy AnalystJ. Craig Venter Institute Commentator: William K. Hall, Adjunct Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan 4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Life Sciences and Society Program, and the University of Michigan Center for Ethics in Public Life.

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President Commentator: Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Professor, Sociology & Organizational Studies, University of Michigan 4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan College of Engineering.