Since 2001, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines has been at the forefront of the fight for affordable, equitable medicines developed on university campuses. The latest published data say that 99% of all medicines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have been aided with some form of funding from the National Institutes of Health, and that 8 out of 10 of those medicines were discovered in university labs. Yet when those research products leave our campuses, they are spun off, developed, and eventually sold to large pharmaceutical companies that price them out of reach for millions of people around the world. Even worse, if the research product might not be profitable, it is often left on a shelf, leaving the world’s most neglected diseases without any remedies on the market.  UAEM works with the campus community by empowering students, biomedical researchers, faculty, and alumni to engage with their institutions, make demands of policymakers, and educate themselves so we can change the system.  Our members have changed university policy at over 30 institutions worldwide, testified before legislative bodies, delivered statements at the World Health Organization, and influenced international trade policy. They have done this work while building a fun, creative community dedicated to social justice and while most of them have finished major degrees in the fields of law, medicine, public health, economics, biology, chemistry, political science, and more.  In recent years, UAEM North America has changed the U.S. FDA’s policy on clinical trial transparency, assessed the global impact of Canadian universities, advanced affordable access planning with more than a dozen universities and the National Institutes of Health, and built more than 30 chapters of active, engaged UAEM students.  But we have hit a roadblock, maximizing our capacity without additional staff to support and build our network. That’s where you come in. With enough dollars raised, we can expand our team, deliver more resources to our excellent membership, and create a more sustainable push for a research and development system that meets the needs of people around the world.

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