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All events in Harkness Auditorium except where noted. Check out the campus map for directions.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
7:30-9:00 Partners Reception (Yale Law School)
 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14th
8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast (Harkness Auditorium Lobby)
Chapter Leaders Welcome Breakfast (Location TBA)
9:00-9:15 Welcome to Yale: Weekend Logistics and Chapter Introductions
Emily Washington (Yale)
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks: UAEM Combating Health Apartheid
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (UAEM Board of Directors President)
  Introductory Lectures (Harkness) Advanced Panels (Hope)
9:35-10:20 The Problem:
Intro to Access & Research Gaps
Connie Chen (UC Berkeley)		 UAEM Framework and Update on Harvard Process
Ady Barkan (Yale)
Krishna Prabhu & Karolina Maciag (Harvard)
10:30-11:15 UAEM Solutions I:
Crash Course on the International Intellectual Property Regime
Jay Purcell (UC Berkeley)		 National and International IP Politics
Gorik Ooms
Thomas Pogge (Yale)
Enga Kameni
Peter Maybarduk (Essential Action, UAEM alumnus)
11:25-12:10 UAEM Solutions II:
Global Access Licensing Framework (slides, script)
Sarah Sorscher (Harvard)		 Access Metrics Project
Bucky Fazen & Jessica Berwick (Yale)
12:10-12:30 Break
12:30-1:20 Introductory Speaker: Peter Hotez
Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine, George Washington University
1:20-2:20 Regional Lunches (Locations TBA)
Board of Directors Lunch (Location TBA)
2:30-3:30 Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (UAEM Board of Directors President)

State of UAEM
Ethan Guillen (UAEM Executive Director)
3:30-4:30 Campus Campaign Presentations
  • Overview — Taylor Gilliland (UC San Diego)
  • Yale University — Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Yale)
  • Harvard University — Krishna Prabhu (Harvard)
  • University of California — Jay Purcell and Connie Chen (UC Berkeley)
  • McGill University — Michael Le Huynh (McGill)
  • Vanderbilt University – Justin Gregg and Mozzy Saboori (Vanderbilt)
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-6:00 Campus Activism Training
AID Training, Sarah Frazer
6:00-6:30 Activism event TBD
6:30-8:30 Dinner (off campus)
Coordinating Committee and Board Dinner (Location TBA)
9:00 Social Event (GPSCY)
 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15th
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
  Panel Series 1 (Harkness) Panel Series 2 (Hope)
9:00-9:50 Prizes and Patent Pools
Jay Purcell (UC Berkeley)
Kevin Outterson (BU)
Emi MacLean (MSF)		 Biologics
Moderator: Sarah Rimmington (Essential Action)
Sara Crager (Yale)
Sarah Sorscher (Harvard)
Jane Andrews (Hopkins)
10:00-10:50 Working with Allies in the Non-Profit Sector: Neglected Diseases
Catee Lalonde (UBC)
Jana Armstrong (DNDi)		 Licensing University Technologies
Jennifer Washburn
Robert Shafer (Stanford)
Bhaven Sampat (Columbia)
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-12:00 CC Working Group Project Presentations
  • Overview — Ethan Guillen
  • Policy — Jane Andrews, Connie Chen, Kavita Radhakrishnan
  • Metrics — Louis Fazen
  • Campus Campaigns — Michael Lin, Aria Ilyad Ahmad
  • Empowerment — Taylor Gilliland, Sarah Sorscher
  • Neglected Diseases — speaker TBA
12:00-1:00 Working Group Lunches (Locations TBA)
Each working group will have lunch in a different room, where there will be more detailed discussion of each project.
1:00-1:50 UAEM’s Increasing International Presence
  • Overview — Rachel Kiddell-Monroe
  • Sao Paolo University, Brazil — Priscilla Cesar
  • Tanzania — Evance Mmbando
  • UAEM Germany — Max Bender
1:50-2:00 Break
2:00-3:00 Keynote speakers:
Gregg Gonsalves
Eric Sawyer
UNAIDS, Co-Founder Act Up New York
3:00-3:20 Closing Remarks
Ady Barkan (Yale)
3:30-4:40 Coordinating Committee and Chapter Leaders General Meeting (Hope)
Anyone interested in involvement in international student leadership is welcome to attend.

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