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Term Of Reference For Coordinator Pharmaceutical Scientist 🔥


Background

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) is a global coalition of PLHIV and community activists working to achieve universal access to optimal HIV, HCV and TB treatment of those in need. Formed in 2003 by a group of 125 HIV activists from 65 countries at a meeting in Cape Town, ITPC actively advocates for treatment access in eight regions across the globe. ITPC believes that the fight for treatment remains one of the most significant global social justice issues. 

The project ‘Use of TRIPS Flexibilities to Increase Affordability of Treatment for HIV, Tuberculosis and Hepatitis C Virus in Middle-income Countries’ aims to address a critical gap in the global HIV response: access in some LMICs and in UMICs to newer, optimized antiretrovirals (ARVs) for preventing and treating HIV. Access to newer medicines that can cure tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), two common, dangerous coinfections, among people living with HIV, is also necessary. Optimized ARVs are essential to reaching global HIV treatment targets, enacting the WHO ‘treat all’ recommendation and addressing the growing threat of resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), which are widely used in first-line treatment. Considering ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ensuring affordability of potential COVID-19 treatments in middle-income countries is an important component of global response.

The use of TRIPS flexibilities, as recommended by the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines,https://makemedicinesaffordable.org/where-we-work/ [1]) patent oppositions or invalidation lawsuits by preparation of patent oppositions templates for HIV, HCV, TB and COVID-19 medicines (including vaccines) requested by ITPC;

2.     Cross-check and provide inputs to draft templates prepared by Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist and Pharmaceutical Scientist;

3.     Coordinate work of Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist and Pharmaceutical Scientist involved by ITPC for the patent oppositions templates development;

4.     Organize and facilitate regular technical virtual calls of scientific team;

5.     Provide or organize preparation of scientific advise/support to country teams, upon request from ITPC.

Duration of Service Provision:

-        Start date: 24 May 2021

-        End date: August 31, 2022

Qualification/Eligibility Requirements to Provider:

·     Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in working on patent oppositions to pharmaceutical patents

·     Experience in coordination and project management of research projects

·     Сapacity-building experience in the field of IP and access to medicines is an advantage

·     Graduate degree in chemistry or pharmacy

·     Experience and/or academic training in public health, health policy, or related field is a plus;

·     Postgraduate degree in relevant field is an advantage

·     Fluency in English

·     Experience in collaboration with community-based organizations on patent oppositions work

Method of Selection

Quality and Cost-Based Selection method shall be used to determine the winner. The following selection criteria with relative weight of criteria showed in percentages shall be used for selection for the bidders’ proposals that meet all obligatory qualification/eligibility requirements above and that essentially meet the above scope and deliverables:

  1. Qualifications and experience of the consultant in working on the subjects detailed above (relative weight 20%) – shall be assessed based on CV or description of experience;
  2. Quality of previous work and reports developed by the consultant (relative weight 30%) – shall be assessed based on example(s) of previous written patent oppositions related works/reports done by the candidate consultant;
  3. Previous experience of collaboration with CSOs filing patent oppositions on medicines at the national level (20%) – shall be assessed based on CV or description of experience;
  4. Daily rate demanded by the consultant to achieve the work required (relative weight 30%) – shall be assessed based on provided quotation.

Compensation shall be provided in partial payments on a monthly basis for work completed, satisfactory to ITPC’s quality of service, but not more than for 94 days of work. Payment will be made within 30 days upon delivery of the monthly invoice.

http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/final-report/ [2]


  1. https://makemedicinesaffordable.org/where-we-work/
  2. http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/final-report/

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