| Title | 5. Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty: |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency |
| Contributor | Koichi Kameda(author) |
| Denise Pimenta(author) | |
| Gustavo Matta (author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Koichi Kameda, Denise Pimenta, and Gustavo Matta |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2025-09-08 |
| Page range | pp. 140–173 |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 1 illustration |
Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho holds a PhD in sociology (EHESS, Paris) and a BA in law (UERJ, Brazil). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Emile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux and is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP/Fiocruz, Brazil) and at CEPED/Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on issues related to biomedicine, global health, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical markets and social justice, and he has worked on local manufacturing and regulation of diagnostics and vaccines in the Global South and public health–oriented R&D models.
Denise Pimenta is a social anthropologist (PhD, University of Sao Paolo) and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Cidacs-Fiocruz/BA), where she is a member of the Public Engagement with Science team. She is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP-Fiocruz). During her PhD, she did fieldwork in Sierra Leone (West Africa) to understand the relationship between the Ebola epidemic and gender issues.
Gustavo Matta holds a PhD in public health from the Institute of Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a senior researcher in Public Health at the Data and Knowledge Integration Centre for Health (CIDACS) at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Bahia (FIOCRUZ). In addition, he serves as coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Public Health Emergencies Unit (NIESP/CEE/FIOCRUZ) and the Zika Social Sciences Network at Fiocruz and is a member of the Fiocruz Graduate Program for Internationalisation. His work particularly addresses public health emergencies and re-emergencies, primary health care, vaccine politics, health policies, and global health perspectives from the Global South.