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tom paulson::They all revolve around the , which starts wednesday.
One of those confabs orbiting the summit is the , which starts today.
More on that below.
These goals clearly represent a public good.
Yet their discussions and decisionmaking are private.
Journalists, like me, are allowed in to the meeting and all the formal discussions.
But even for the sessions we are allowed to sit in on, we have to get permission from any attendee before making public what they say.
I complain about it almost every year and then usually go anyway.
What both the global health research congress and the pacific health summit hope to accomplish, more importantly perhaps than just irritating journalists, is to deal with a major problem with vaccines.
Thanks in large part to massive investments by the gates foundation in new vaccine development and delivery initiatives, he said, the global health community is now facing a bottleneck.
Lead sponsors include microsoft, swedish medical center, a number of drug companies such as merck and glaxosmithkline, chevron, general electric, ups and cocacola.