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55 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 1 (2022-2023)

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                   NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

      JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL

                LAW AND POLITICS


VOL.   55                    Fall 2022                       No.  1


   THE   FUTURE OF PANDEMIC VACCINE ACCESSt


            SAM  HALABI*,  SHARONANN LYNCH**, AND
                     JULIETTE  MCHARDY***

        Now  over two years since the pandemic began, new COVID-19 cases
    are plateauing or declining and deaths rates are following. The gradual
    spread of vaccine access to low- and middle-income countries, couiled with
    the emergence of the comparatively mild omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2,
    has raised hopes that the COVID-19 piublic health emergency may now be
    moving to a post-pandemic period. While this comes as welcome news,


    t This article was made possible with the support of the Global Health
Security Network and was first published as SAM HALM, SHARONANN LYNCH
& JULIETTE MCHARDY,  INTELLECTUAL  PROPERTY AND  COVID-19  VACCINES
(Global Health Security Network Policy Report No. 2, Nov. 2021), https://
www.ghsn.org/resources/Documents/GHSN% 20
Policy%20Report%202.pdf. For a related work by the same author, see also
Sam Halabi, Executive Authority Under the U.S. Constitution to Enter a Pandemic
Treaty or Other International Agreement, 63 Harv. J. Int'l L. Online, https://
harvardilj.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/ 15/Halabi_Executive-Authority-
for-a-Pandemic-Treaty_202204_PDF.pdf  [https://perma.cc/28KY-73EV].
The  authors thank participants in the O'Neill Institute for National and
Global Health Law Summer  Workshop  Series as well as participants at the
American  Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Professors'
Conference.
    * Professor, Georgetown School of Health; Senior Scholar and Co-
Director, Center for Transformational Health Law, O'Neill Institute for
National and Global Health Law,  Georgetown University. J.D. Harvard,
MPhil Oxford (St. Antony's College), B.S. Kansas State University.
   **  Senior scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law,
Georgetown University
  *** Fellow, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law,
Georgetown University. LLM Georgetown University, BA/LLB University of
Auckland, New  Zealand. The authors thank Rachel Danner for excellent
research assistance.

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