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September 24, 2012

Health
New From CFR: Thomas Bollyky on Noncommunicable Diseases

In a CFR.org interview last week timed to the one-year anniversary of a UN high-level meeting on the subject, CFR senior fellow Thomas Bollyky discussed global progress on combating noncommunicable d…

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August 18, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Guest Post: Bollyky on Tobacco and Trade

  Jagdish, a thirty-two-year-old daily wage laborer, smokes a cigarette while working at a timber market in Mumbai on June 7, 2011. (Danish Siddiqui/courtesy Reuters)   President Obama…

Jagdish, a 32-year-old daily wage labourer, smokes a cigarette while working at a a timber market in Mumbai June 7, 2011. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

April 11, 2013

Asia
New From CFR: Thomas Bollyky on Drug Patents in the Developing World

In light of an Indian court’s refusal to grant a patent to the leukemia drug Gleevec, CFR senior fellow Thomas Bollyky wrote yesterday about the tension between pharmaceutical firms seeking compensat…

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June 4, 2013

Health
New From CFR: Thomas Bollyky on Intellectual Property and Global Health

In an article yesterday on CNN, CFR senior fellow Thomas Bollyky surveyed the tension between two leading global health concerns: protecting pharmaceutical firms’ intellectual property (IP) and impro…

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