Integrating Biodiversity Management and Indigenous Biopiracy Protection to Promote Environmental Justice and Global Health

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ID11020132
AuthorsTim K Mackey (0000-0002-2191-7833, Timothy K. Mackey is with the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, and the Joint Doctoral Program on Global Health, University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University. Bryan A. Liang is with the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, and the San Diego Center for Patient Safety and the Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.), Bryan A Liang (0000-0001-7801-5673, Timothy K. Mackey is with the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, and the Joint Doctoral Program on Global Health, University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University. Bryan A. Liang is with the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law, San Diego, and the San Diego Center for Patient Safety and the Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego.)
Year2012
Volume102
Issue6
Pages1091-1095
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2011.300408
PMID22515858
PMCIDPMC3483946
OpenAlexW2130586441
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited10

Many potentially useful medicines arise from developing countries’ biodiverse environments and indigenous knowledge. However, global intellectual property rules have resulted in biopiracy, raising serious ethical concerns of environmental justice, exploitation, and health disparities in these populations. Furthermore, state-based approaches have not led to adequate biodiversity protection, management, or resource sharing, which affect access to lifesaving drugs. In response, country delegates adopted the Nagoya Protocol, which aims at promoting biodiversity management, combating biopiracy, and encouraging equitable benefits sharing with indigenous communities. However, the effectiveness of this framework in meeting these objectives remains in question. To address these challenges, we propose a policy building on the Nagoya Protocol that employs a World Health Organization–World Trade Organization Joint Committee on Bioprospecting and Biopiracy

Biodiversity · Biology · Bioprospecting · Business · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Intellectual property · Political science · Traditional knowledge · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Intellectual Property and Patents · Law

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