6 of the 16 advisers said WHO influenza conflict of interest 13/08/2010

6 of the 16 advisers said WHO influenza conflict of interestThe organization breaks the secrecy of the experts who handled the crisis
E. DE B. - Madrid - 13/08/2010
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Once officially finished the new flu pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has broken the secret that kept the names of 16 experts from the emergency committee advising the director, Margaret Chan. Of these, six reported conflicts of interest, have also been made public, to be recruited. In the list, which has facilitated the WHO itself, there is no Spanish.

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Of the six suspects, there is one that seems ruled out a priori: Claude Thibault, advisor to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). And three others working in government laboratories that have received funding from pharmaceutical companies. Are therefore two more delicate situation: Morris Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who until 2007-an influenza pandemic began in 2009 - advised Roche and GSK, and Arnold Monto, University of Michigan, who has advised Flu GSK, Novartis, Roche, Baxter and Sanofi.
Spanish investigators say the problem is that in the western world is very difficult to make a career as a researcher without recourse to private funds, and many of these, when it comes to health matters, from those who have the money and interest: laboratories . In Spain, for example, Farmaindustria funds programs of the Institute of Health Carlos III and through the FIPSE Foundation, the fight against AIDS.
The announcement of the World Health Organization has been welcomed by critics of crisis management as Paul Flynn, scourge of the organization in the Council of Europe, who has called for aid transparency, the names are known from the moment you choose, and not when the alert has passed.