Power
Building collective power in the university community to challenge the structures that keep medicines out of reach.
Challenge oppressive power structures
Foster the next generation of leaders to build collective power and challenge oppressive power structures to deliver access to medicines as a basic human right. Members are given the skills and tools necessary to understand then shift balances of power to create concrete change in people’s lives as it relates to health equity.
Access to medicines is not blocked by a shortage of science. It is blocked by imbalances of power: decisions about what gets researched, who owns the results, how it is priced, and who is allowed to benefit.
Universities have a social contract with society and as educational and research institutions, they have a responsibility to steward their discoveries for the public good, not simply to license them to the highest bidder.
The university community is the key to fighting for a new biomedical research system that centers people over profits and solves the world’s most neglected health needs.
Student and researchers have pressured major universities, invested time in laboratories to develop evidence, and have changed the paradigm on the fight for access to essential medicines.
We equip our university communities with political advocacy skills to hold decision-makers accountable, win concrete change in access to medicines, and bring new advocates into the access to medicines movement. By developing the next generation of health justice leaders, UAEM works to ensure the access to medicines movement keeps growing and fighting for change.