UAEM names Ethan Guillén as Executive Director
UAEM names Ethan Guillén as Executive Director
Experienced organizer to drive university campaign for access to essential medicines
NEW HAVEN, CT. – Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) announced today the appointment of Ethan Guillén as the organization’s new Executive Director.
"We are thrilled to bring Ethan’s organizing experience and energy into our organization,” said Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, President of the UAEM Board of Directors. “With Ethan’s leadership, UAEM is poised to strengthen its drive to ensure access to life-saving medicines for people in developing nations through holding universities accountable for their role in developing and licensing new medicines.”
UAEM is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the role and responsibility of universities to take part in addressing the global access to medicines crisis. With chapters at over 40 universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Guillén will lead the organization as it works to ensure the global availability of medicines developed through university-sponsored research and to increase university research into treatments for neglected diseases.
“As Executive Director, I look forward to working with UAEM’s energetic members to make a difference in the lives of people in developing countries by making life saving drugs developed in universities available to them.”
Guillén initially became involved in UAEM as an undergraduate at Yale. He has spent the past three years working on political campaigns as an organizer and media consultant while advising elected officials on policy proposals. Previously, Guillén spent a year teaching primary school in rural India.
About Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
UAEM is a coalition of over 40 student chapters across North America dedicated to using university action to address the accesstomedicines crisis in developing countries. Its mission is to ensure universities take responsibility for their role in resolving the access to medicines crisis in developing countries. UAEM focuses on two main activities : (1) determining how universities can help ensure that biomedical end products, such as drugs, are made more accessible in developing countries and (2)promoting increased research on neglected diseases Please see http://www.essentialmedicine.org/ for more information.
