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Earlier this month, news broke that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would become the first university to contribute intellectual property to the GlaxoSmithKline patent pool for “neglected tropical diseases,” diseases that predominantly or exclusively affect people in developing countries. The MIT announcement is part of a growing movement among universities to focus on gaps in a drug-development system that too often neglects the needs of patients in the developing world...
...doing enough?” Neglected tropical diseases are not the only diseases that kill people in developing countries: Heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and stroke are among the leading causes of death among people in poor countries. These diseases are not “neglected,” because they affect the rich and poor alike, and new technologies are being developed to treat them. Yet it is the poor who disproportionately die from these diseases, due in part to lack of access to appropriate care...
...country is associated with an increase in GDP per capita of around $700.” Today, 18 years after Summers’ speech, the question is no longer whether girls’ education in the developing world is an economically valuable cause, but rather how to best affect change within this sector...
Wayne M. Langley, director of higher education for SEIU Local 615, said that SEIU commissioned the report to determine the implications of major universities’ financial situations, which affect many of the union’s members...
...degree at Harvard can get a job,” he says. “I don’t think undergraduate degrees affect job factors much, I don’t think there’s a strong correlation...