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Archive for March, 2007

Jeffrey Sachs Addresses Universities’ Role in Global Public Health

On March 29th, Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, addressed students at Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institution regarding “Scaling Up Public Health in Low-Income Countries: The Challenges and Role of Universities” . The event was the capstone lecture of Tri-I UAEM’s Global Health series.
Tri-I’s earlier Forum on Neglected Diseases introduced students to the topic […]

UAEM Applauds Milestone New University Access Commitment, Seeks Specifics

In a new licensing best-practices document released this week, eleven top research universities and the Association of American Medical Colleges committed to changes that may make university medical breakthroughs more widely available in developing countries. The document recognizes for the first time that “universities should strive to construct licensing arrangements in ways that ensure that […]