The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) organised on 26 February 2025 the first in a series of Trilateral Cooperation briefings for health, trade and intellectual property (IP) diplomats based in Geneva, Switzerland. Held as a closed meeting at WHO Headquarters, members of the three organisations shared experiences on supporting sustainable innovation ecosystems through health, trade and IP.
The imperative to adopt an integrated approach to issues at the crossroads of health, IP, and trade has been at the heart of the longstanding collaboration among the three Geneva-based organisations.
Governments and policymakers face the challenge of identifying the right mix of policy options to advance domestic policy objectives and facilitate sustainable innovation. Participants discussed how to facilitate ongoing domestic and regional policy discussions through a more coherent and comprehensive approach.
Members with diverse levels of development and from different regions of the world shared valuable experiences about implementing laws and policies in support of sustainable innovation ecosystems and access to the outcomes. This was followed by a roundtable discussion and further complemented by information provided by the three organisations on trilateral and other relevant work.
The WHO-WIPO-WTO Technical Assistance Platform was also briefly introduced at the meeting. It allows members to easily request joint technical assistance from the three organisations to access the full range of expertise at the intersection of health, trade and IP in a coordinated manner.
The Trilateral Briefing series is a set of closed meetings for members.
The next briefing session for Geneva-based health, IP and trade attachés is tentatively scheduled to take place in September 2025.
The WHO-WIPO-WTO Technical Assistance Platform is accessible at: