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Neglected diseases affect one billion people worldwide. To eliminate them, Korea has a crucial role to play

By Dr Luis Pizarro, Executive Director of DNDi Dr Luis Pizarro is the Executive Director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), an international medical research non-profit organization that delivered 13 new treatments since its creation 20 years by Doctors Without Borders, the Institut Pasteur and the WHO. DNDi has offices in eight...

Could this trailblazing ODA strategy spark a new approach to global health? Experts discuss future perspectives on Korea’s ODA for global health

In recent years, the conversation surrounding Official Development Assistance (ODA) from South Korea has gained significant momentum. As Korea positions itself as a crucial player in the international arena, its contributions to global health through ODA have become a topic of much interest. Korea’s involvement in global health initiatives is...

RIGHT Foundation, BMGF, FIND come together to achieve health equity with Korean companies

Global health experts emphasized the importance of derisking and incentivizing R&D for ensuring effective delivery and access to vaccines and diagnostics at the RIGHT Foundation’s fifth-anniversary forum in Seoul on Friday. FIND’s Executive Vice President of External Affairs Willo Brock (left) and RIGHT Foundation CEO Hani Kim show the signed a...

South Korean partners come together at the re-imagining TB initiative’s first collaboration workshop

South Korean partners come together at the Re-imagining TB Care initiative’s first Collaboration Workshop to leverage their strength in R&D and health technologies for TB services Over 60 South Korean academic/research institutions, civil society, developers (multinationals, small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, etc.), non-gove...

Featured News: RIGHT Fund to receive research proposals for infectious disease

The RIGHT (Research Investment for Global Health Technology) Fund said Thursday that it opened this year’s first request for proposals for Product Development Award (PDA) and Evidence Generation Award (EGA). It would receive them until Aug. 16. Both awards are research grants to support infectious disease researches to alleviate global health inequ...

Interview: Peter Hotez, Director of the RIGHT Fund “Inequity, the hidden super transmitter of COVID-19”

Interview: Peter Hotez, Director of the RIGHT Fund “Inequity, the hidden super transmitter of COVID-19” Published in Kukmin Ilbo This article is only available in Korean. Original Article News List

Column: Bora Kim, Program Associate of RIGHT Fund “Korea needs to grow interest in global public health market further”

Published in the Korea Biomedical Review & the Korean Doctors’ Weekly Bora Kim, Program Associate of Investment Management Team, RIGHT Fund Global health is a growing priority for Korea’s international cooperation agenda as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its well-executed pandemic response, providing opportunities for increased leadershi...

Interview: Myongsei Sohn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, RIGHT Fund “Support for Infectious Disease R&D Should Aim to Prepare for Future Disasters rather than an Immediate Result”

Published in the Joongang daily This article is only available in Korean. Original Article News List

Interview: Myongsei Sohn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, RIGHT Fund “No reasons to reject post that can enhance Korea’s healthcare status”

Published in the Korea Biomedical Review & the Korean Doctors’ Weekly Former Yonsei University Professor Sohn Myong-sei, who served as director of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, has taken office as the second chairman of the Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Fund. RIGHT Fund is an international health...

Interview: Myongsei Sohn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, RIGHT Fund “Korea’s Advanced Medical Technology Becomes Now the Hope of Developing Countries”

Published in the Yonsein monthly This article is only available in Korean. Original Article News List

Interview: “SK Bioscience is Developing a Cost-Effective HAV Vaccine on a Small-Footprint, Low-Cost Vaccine Manufacturing Platform”

Published in the Yakup This article is only available in Korean. Original Article News List

Interview: “QuadMedicine is developing the world’s first pentavalent vaccine microneedle system leveraging its MAP technology”

Published in the Yakup This article is only available in Korean. Original Article News List

Interview: “EuBiologics will Contribute the Defeating Global Meningitis Through Development of the Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine”

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Featured News: Trevor Mundel, president of Global Health at the BMGF “Korea to play key role in fighting off future pandemics”

Published in the Korea Biomedical Review Korea will become an integral part of fighting off future pandemics with the nation’s accumulated experience from fighting Covid-19, according to Trevor Mundel, president of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and chair of the RIGHT (Research Investment for Global Health Technology) Fund...

RIGHT Fund Investment Forum 2020

RIGHT Fund Investment Forum 2020 This year’s RIGHT Fund Investment Forum was held as the 2nd session of Healthcare Innovation Forum 2020 co-hosted by the ChosunBiz and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute. The RIGHT Fund Investment Forum, a global networking forum chaired annually by RIGHT Fund, was held simultaneously online and o...

[RIGHT Fund Investment Forum 2020_HEALTHCARE INNOVATION FORUM 2020] The Pandemic Would Come Back Again… Should Break Through with Global Collaboration and Innovation

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[RIGHT Fund Investment Forum 2020_HEALTHCARE INNOVATION FORUM 2020] Baik Lin Seong, Director General, VITAL-Korea “We’ll Secure Vaccine Sovereignty to End the Pandemic”

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[RIGHT Fund Investment Forum 2020_HEALTHCARE INNOVATION FORUM 2020] Jin Seon Park, Vice President of SK Bioscience “Global Cooperation to Overcome the Pandemic Both Contributes for it and Shares the Risk”

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