Description: Seminar, one hour. Examination of complexity and intersectionality of access to medicines movement. Introduction to healthcare disparities around world and social, economic and political forces that create them. Discussion social determinants of health and how global medicines accessibility crisis fits into larger topic of public health. Highlights specific examples such as HIV/AIDS epidemic and COVID-19 global pandemic, and discussion of how access to medicines shaped these events. Discussion of current research and development model and how it is geared towards creating profitable drugs, often at expense of patient lives. Examination of health-care system as whole in U.S. and Europe. Discussion of impact of youth activism in access to medicines space. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Ambika Verma, with Maryam Farzanegan as faculty mentor.

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