This year at the UACES Annual Conference in Trento, Pramiti Parwani (University of Amsterdam) presented her ongoing doctoral research on the legal and institutional frameworks in the EU and India determining access to vaccines. Her paper analysing the ‘Team Europe Initiative’ was part of the panel The EU as a Global Health Actor – Between Securitisation and Cooperation, organised by the EUHealthGov network. Her work combines third world approaches to international law (TWAIL) with the Capabilites Approach to examine barriers at different stages of the vaccine supply chain- from research and development, to manufacturing capacity to regulatory approval.
About the author: Pramiti Parwani is a PhD Fellow at AIGHD, and is also based at the Amsterdam Law School at the University of Amsterdam (in the Law Centre for Health and Life and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG)). Her work has been published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation, the Global Trade and Customs Journal, and the Lancet.