Causes: Human Service Organizations, Human Services, International
Mission: Universities allied for essential medicines (uaem) is a global student-led non-profit organization with chapters at more than 70 premiere research institutions in the u. S. And worldwide. Uaems mission is to (1) promote access to medicines and medical innovations in low- and middle-income countries by changing norms and practices around academic patenting and licensing, (2) ensure that university medical research meets the needs of people worldwide and (3) empower students to respond to the access and innovation crisis.
Programs: International public health/international health: empowerment initiative. In 2014, uaems annual international conference at duke university in north carolina brought together over 200 students and professionals from over 10 countries. At the conference, participants from all around the globe shared updates on their progress and received an introduction on the latest access-to-medicines issues. Students also heard from and engaged with experts in the field, including keynote speaker marine buissonire, director of the open society public health program. Finally, participants gained practical leadership, advocacy and activism skills. Uaem students from multiple countries also attended the 67th world health assembly (wha) in geneva. At the assembly, uaem played a key role in pushing member countries to adopt a more ambitious plan for exploring alternative biomedical r&d models. Further, uaem students actively participated in debates on the proposed trans-pacific partnership trade agreement and advocate for better policies to serve the interests of the developing countries engaged in the process, and published briefs on these topics. Uaems network also continued to expand in europe, brazil, south asia and other areas, and uaem continued to provide global health leadership opportunities and experience through campus initiatives and service on uaems coordinating committee, board of directors, and in other positions.
international public health/international health: access initiative: over the past year, uaem mobilized student-led campus campaigns for socially-responsible licensing of life-saving medical discoveries at major north american and european universities among others. By the end of 2014, approximately 70 universities had adopted policies to improve affordable access to medicines researched and discovered at these institutions, largely in response to advocacy from uaem students worldwide. Uaem also worked with our fast-growing network of brazilian student leadership to engage and participate in latin american health discussions and access to major research institutions that have a vested interest in researching neglected diseases. Further, uaem continued to collaborate with new chapters in nepal and india.
medical specialties research: innovation initiative: in 2014, uaem focused on updating, expanding and improving the second version of the university report card, an advocacy tool used to evaluate, rank and grade top universities contribution to global equity in biomedical research and elements of global health. This university report card builds on the strengths of our existing metrics and data by expanding the breadth and depth of its measurements, and incorporate the helpful and intelligent post-release feedback that uaem has received from students, faculty, administrators, and advisers. Staff and student volunteers have been collecting, compiling and analyzing data from a wide range of public and proprietary sources, and laying the ground for the compilation and distribution through a user-friendly website. The second version of the university report card was released early 2015.
Mission: Universities allied for essential medicines (uaem) is a global student-led non-profit organization with chapters at more than 70 premiere research institutions in the u. S. And worldwide. Uaems mission is to (1) promote access to medicines and medical innovations in low- and middle-income countries by changing norms and practices around academic patenting and licensing, (2) ensure that university medical research meets the needs of people worldwide and (3) empower students to respond to the access and innovation crisis.
Programs: International public health/international health: empowerment initiative. In 2014, uaems annual international conference at duke university in north carolina brought together over 200 students and professionals from over 10 countries. At the conference, participants from all around the globe shared updates on their progress and received an introduction on the latest access-to-medicines issues. Students also heard from and engaged with experts in the field, including keynote speaker marine buissonire, director of the open society public health program. Finally, participants gained practical leadership, advocacy and activism skills. Uaem students from multiple countries also attended the 67th world health assembly (wha) in geneva. At the assembly, uaem played a key role in pushing member countries to adopt a more ambitious plan for exploring alternative biomedical r&d models. Further, uaem students actively participated in debates on the proposed trans-pacific partnership trade agreement and advocate for better policies to serve the interests of the developing countries engaged in the process, and published briefs on these topics. Uaems network also continued to expand in europe, brazil, south asia and other areas, and uaem continued to provide global health leadership opportunities and experience through campus initiatives and service on uaems coordinating committee, board of directors, and in other positions.
international public health/international health: access initiative: over the past year, uaem mobilized student-led campus campaigns for socially-responsible licensing of life-saving medical discoveries at major north american and european universities among others. By the end of 2014, approximately 70 universities had adopted policies to improve affordable access to medicines researched and discovered at these institutions, largely in response to advocacy from uaem students worldwide. Uaem also worked with our fast-growing network of brazilian student leadership to engage and participate in latin american health discussions and access to major research institutions that have a vested interest in researching neglected diseases. Further, uaem continued to collaborate with new chapters in nepal and india.
medical specialties research: innovation initiative: in 2014, uaem focused on updating, expanding and improving the second version of the university report card, an advocacy tool used to evaluate, rank and grade top universities contribution to global equity in biomedical research and elements of global health. This university report card builds on the strengths of our existing metrics and data by expanding the breadth and depth of its measurements, and incorporate the helpful and intelligent post-release feedback that uaem has received from students, faculty, administrators, and advisers. Staff and student volunteers have been collecting, compiling and analyzing data from a wide range of public and proprietary sources, and laying the ground for the compilation and distribution through a user-friendly website. The second version of the university report card was released early 2015.
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