This week’s Nature includes a letter from several Yale students who drew media attention to ethical problems with a Hepatitis E vaccine trial in Nepal. The project that group was working on in Nepal while this was taking place was partially funded by UAEM.
You can read the Nature letter here.
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Andrews, Jason. […]

Last semester, BerkeleyUAEM sent a letter to Chancellor Birgeneau informing him of our group’s interests and purpose, and requesting, among other things, that UC Berkeley adopt a statement that the primary goal of the university’s Technology Licensing program is to improve global human welfare.
We receieved a reply - one we feel is excellent. It […]

Berkeley UAEM held a successful strategy meeting Monday night, which was facilitated by Berkeley Prof. Ahmed. The small core group of active students at Berkeley showed up to join the discussion, as well as UAEM co-founder Samantha Chaifetz, who was in town to give a lecture.
We were able to define a pyramid of goals, working […]