Activities & Events

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Since 2002, several TMGH participants have volunteered in designing and conducting workshops at key conferences to heighten awareness of global health related technology transfer topics. Summaries of some of these workshops—many of the early ones being the “first-ever” global health tech transfer sessions at such conferences at the time they were held—are included below. TMGH founder Usha Balakrishnan has continued to incorporate such topics into presentations, outreach activities, and CARTHA programs that reach out to audiences large and small, in local community settings as well as at international gatherings. Global health tech transfer topics are now routinely featured in many university-based seminars, professional society meetings, and public forums. We encourage you to explore, organize, and participate in such dialogs and add your unique voice in these dialogs as a tech transfer professional.

2008

  • February 28, 2008 – The 5th annual meeting of the Technology Managers for Global Health was held at AUTM 2008 in San Diego. About 42 professionals attended this meeting.  Click here for the meeting agenda.
  • February 20, 2008 – Inaugural event "Women in Academic Licensing" organized in New York by Sadhana Chitale (New York University) and Kathleen Dennis (Rockefeller University).  TMGH founder Usha Balakrishnan spoke at this event along with TMGH volunteer Tari Suprapto (Rockefeller University). About 30 women professionals and technology transfer interns participated from academic institutions in the New York area.

2007

  • March 9, 2007 - The 4th annual meeting of the Technology Managers for Global Health group was held during AUTM 2007 (San Francisco). For the first time, the meeting included a guest speaker, Linda Harrar, an Emmy award-winning documentary producer, who shared her perspectives on the interactions of science, technology, society and global health. Click here to see the announcement in the AUTM Program Materials click here, the meeting agenda and Usha Balakrishnan's Opening Remarks.
  • March 9, 2007 - AUTM 2007 Session titled "Best Practices in Humanitarian Licensing of Intellectual Property," organized by Richard Wilder

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2003

  • September 2003 - AUTM and MIHR professionals gathered at the Gordon Research Conference, Big Sky, Montana and discussed the goals and set out an early workplan.
  • Workshop titled "Drug Discovery/Health R&D Partnerships"
  • Workshop Summary and Speakers
  • April 2003 - Proposal to AUTM for the formation of a Special Interest Group called "Technology Transfer Professionals for Global Health"
  • February 2003 - AUTM 2003 Inaugural workshop on global health topics, Orlando

2002

  • March 2002 - Maria Freire's influential speech at AUTM 2002, San Diego
  • See Bayh-Dole award recipient remarks . Dr. Freire's speech — underscoring global health as the "next frontier" for academic technology transfer — inspired Usha Balakrishnan to begin her interactions with MIHR. The inaugural workshop in 2003 to address global health topics at AUTM attracted over 40 enthusiastic participants. This produced the momentum for the formation of the AUTM Special Interest Group, Technology Managers for Global Health.

The information provided on this site is still a work-in-progress and is undertaken mostly by TMGH volunteers. So, it is not meant to be comprehensive by any means. We realize that this informational resource will need to be added to, and updated frequently. We welcome suggestions for additional inclusions and edits.