Our Universities. Our Labs. Our Responsibility: The Role of Universities in Drug Access and Innovation for Developing Countries Michael Gretes & Dr. Kishor Wasan University of British Columbia Universities, Innovation and Global Medicine Access Workshop Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto

Why Universities? Mandate Capacity Opportunity

Why Universities? Mandate Capacity Opportunity

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The University of British Columbia, aspiring to be one of the world’s best universities, will prepare students to become exceptional global citizens, promote the values of a civil and sustainable society, and conduct outstanding research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada, and the world.

The Mission of McGill University is the advancement of learning through teaching, scholarship and service to society : by offering to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students the best education available; by carrying out scholarly activities judged to be excellent when measured against the highest international standards and by providing service to society in those ways for which we are well-suited by virtue of our academic strengths.

The University of Toronto is dedicated to fostering an academic community in which the learning and scholarship of every member may flourish, with vigilant protection for individual human rights, and a resolute commitment to the principles of equal opportunity, equity and justice. Within the unique university context, the most crucial of all human rights are the rights of freedom of speech, academic freedom, and freedom of research. And we affirm that these rights are meaningless unless they entail the right to raise deeply disturbing questions and provocative challenges to the cherished beliefs of society at large and of the university itself. It is this human right to radical, critical teaching and research with which the University has a duty above all to be concerned; for there is no one else, no other institution and no other office, in our modern liberal democracy, which is the custodian of this most precious and vulnerable right of the liberated human spirit.

Why Universities? Mandate Capacity Opportunity

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ARV coverage, WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF, Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, Progress Report, June 2008

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Why Universities? Mandate Capacity Opportunity

celebrate the new campus drug culture Universities Allied for Essential Medicines uaem.org

UAEM Vision and Mission

Universities will be part of the solution to the access to medicines crisis All people will have access regardless of income

UAEM Vision and Mission Access to medicines via university patenting and licensing practices University medical research meets needs of the world’s majority

UAEM across Canada Simon Fraser University Text

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