UAEM Featured in University of Edinburgh Annual Review

The University of Edinburgh featured UAEM's work, including UAEM's UK national coordinator Mori Mansouri, in their annual review. The University has taken a leadership role as one of the first universities in the UK to adopt a humanitarian agenda for the licensing of its medical research.

"Mori Mansouri, UK national coordinator for UAEM and a fourth-year medical student at the University, led the campaign for Edinburgh to adopt the policy. 'Being a medical student and having travelled to various poverty-stricken areas of the world, I’m keenly aware of the problem of access to essential medicines,' he says. 'I have seen empty medicine cabinets in rural and urban clinics and hospitals around Zambia and Kenya, and witnessed first hand patients’ deterioration simply because they could not afford existing medicines.'"