Can We Design Pharmaceuticals For All?
Channel: The Other School
Date: 2021-05-04

The production of medicines and vaccines is largely left to the hands a profit-seeking private sector, despite the vital importance of public health, as well as massive public investments in underlying research. Why do covid-19 vaccines belong to private pharmaceutical companies, and not the people?

Els Torreele, a world-renowned researcher and advocate for social justice and health rights, shares how we can do medical innovation by working together and sharing knowledge rather than privatizing it. She advocates for the best possible treatments available for everyone.

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We thank Panagiotis Giannakoulas, Lucas Lemos and the Belgian NGO Viva Salud for subtitling the video in four languages.

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