All signatories
The Philadelphia Consensus Statement is broadly supported by university students and professors, as well as the general public. View the complete list of signatures here:
- Most recent signatures (since August 5, 2007)
- First 2500 signatures (up to August 5, 2007)
Signatures are periodically moderated, so your signature may not appear for several days if you have recently signed on.
Initial signatories
Many of the individuals and organizations listed below, the Philadelphia Consensus Statement’s initial signatories, provided feedback and support in the development of the statement. The list includes experts in the fields of science and medicine, law, public health and policy, and individual leaders and organizations from civil society. We hope you will join these luminaries in calling on universities to adopt policies that will increase access to medicines in the developing world.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Marcia Angell, Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine; Member, Institute of Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Jerry Avorn, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Pierre Baldi, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Information and Computer Sciences; Director of Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California, Irvine
Solomon Benatar, Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town; Foreign Member, Institute of Medicine
Todd Capson, Associate Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
George Chandy, Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine
Partho Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego
Siamon Gordon, GlaxoWellcome Professor of Cellular Pathology, University of Oxford; Pediatric Dengue Initiative Grantee; Initiator, AIDS Education Booklet for Southern Africa
Victoria Hale, Founder and CEO, Institute for OneWorld Health
Robert E.W. Hancock, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
Barton F. Haynes, MD, Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine
Wim G.J. Hol, Professor, Biochemistry and Biological Structure, Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington
Peter Hotez, Director, Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative; Walter G. Ross Professor of Basic Science Research at The George Washington University
Warren D. Johnson, Jr, B.H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine, Cornell University
Phyllis Kanki, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health
David Mayne, Emeritus Professor of Control Theory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
J. Andrew McCammon, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joseph E. Mayer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Professor of Pharmacology, UC San Diego
Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, UCSF Global Health Sciences
W. Geoffrey Owen, Dean of Biological Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
John Polanyi, Professor, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of Toronto
Arnold S. Relman, Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine; Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harold Simon, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health and Cross-cultural Medicine, UC San Diego
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Laureate in Physics
Ken Stuart, President and Director of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute; Professor, University of Washington
Sir John Sulston, Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Harold Varmus, Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Founder of Public Library of Science (PLoS); Chairman of the Scientific Board of Grand Challenges in Global Health
Mark A Wainberg, Professor of Medicine, Director, McGill AIDS Centre, McGill University
Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
LAW
Brook K. Baker, Northeastern University School of Law, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy; Health GAP
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University
Edwin Cameron, Justice, South African Supreme Court of Appeal
Carlos M. Correa, Professor, University of Buenos Aires
Dan Hunter, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Law School; Visiting Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
Mark A. Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
Peter Menell, Professor of Law and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California at Berkeley
Carol Mimura, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances, UC Berkeley
Beth Noveck, Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy; and Associate Professor, New York Law School
Kevin Outterson, Professor of Law, West Virginia University
Daniel B. Ravicher, President and Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law; Professor of Information Management; Chancellor’s Professor; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Jill Sorenson, former Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office, General Manager of Bilyan, LLC
PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLICY
Alan Berkman, Founder of Health GAP, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Art Caplan, Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
Arachu Castro, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Paul Farmer, Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology, Harvard University
Eva Harris, President, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Associate Professor, University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases
Howard Hiatt, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; former Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health
Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, University of California at Berkeley
Jim Yong Kim, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Deborah McFarland, Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Glenn McGee, Director, Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI), Albany Medical College
Michael Merson, Director, Global Health Institute, Duke University
Jon F. Merz, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Richard R. Nelson, George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business, and Law, Emeritus, Columbia University
James Orbinski, Associate Professor Medicine and Politcal Science & Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; former International president of Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders
Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Michael R. Reich, Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
Josh Ruxin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health, Columbia University; Director, Millennium Villages Project Rwanda and the Access Project
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University and Director, UN Millennium Project
Bhaven N. Sampat, Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
F.M. Scherer, Aetna Professor Emeritus of Government, Harvard University
Michael J. Selgelid, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE); and Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Australian National University
Anthony So, Director, Program on Global Health and Technology Access, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
CIVIL SOCIETY
Zackie Achmat, Founder and Chairman, Treatment Action Campaign
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Jonathan Berger, Head of Policy and Research, AIDS Law Project
Professor Judith Blau, President of the U.S. Chapter of Sociologists Without Borders
Colleen Daniels, Project Coordinator, Health Action International Europe
Nils Daulaire, President and CEO, Global Health Council
Paul Davis, Director, U.S. Government Relations, Health GAP (Global Access Project)
Nicoletta Dentico, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
Richard Elliott, Deputy Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE-USA; Immediate Past President, International AIDS Society
Anand Grover, Project Director, Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
Vineeta Gupta, Director, Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative
Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Jamie Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
Benjamin Krohmal, Project Director at the Consumer Project on Technology
Peter Lurie, Deputy Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
Chan Park, Advocacy Officer, Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
Bernard Pecoul, Executive Director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
Jonathan Quick, Former Director of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy at the World Health Organization; President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health
Priti Radhakrishnan, Founder, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge
Leonard S. Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
ORGANIZATIONS
ACT UP East Bay, Oakland, CA
African Services Committee
AIDS Access Foundation (AAF)
AIDS Law Project
American Medical Student Association
American Medical Women’s Association
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN)
Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
Development Research and Action Group (DRAG)
Dignitas International
Diverse Women For Diversity
ENGAGE
European AIDS Treatment Group, Brussels, Belgium
Global AIDS Alliance
Global Health Council
Health GAP
Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK)
International Peoples Health Council (South Asia)
Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
Oxfam International
Partners in Health
Research Foundation For Science Technology & Ecology
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sociologists without Borders
Southern Initiatives
Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative
Students Against Global AIDS
Student Campaign for Child Survival
Student Global AIDS Campaign
Thai Network For People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+)
University of California-Irvine Associated Graduate Students
Yale University Graduate & Professional Student Senate
