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Kerry Kennedy is the President of The RFK Human Rights Foundation, founded in 1968 to carry forward Robert Kennedy’s work on social justice…

Frank Lichtenberg is a professor at the Columbia Business School, looking at the impact of medical innovation not only on the wealthiest countries, but also the lowest resourced 1 billion people in the world.

Jing Dong is a professor at Columbia Business School, teaching an MBA class in managerial statistics, as well as PhD classes on econometrics.

Andrew Williams is the Chief Medical Support Section of the UN, helping manage peacekeepers on the ground, and diffusing medical technologies to the world’s most under-resourced 1 billion people.

Half the world’s population does not have access to basic healthcare. The primary reason? They simply cannot afford it.

Maternal health is arguably the backbone of a strong and resilient society and country. It is a public health factor that is and should be viewed from a human rights and wellbeing perspective as well as a medically important one.

According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, “refugees should have access to the same or similar healthcare as host populations.”

One of the core tenants of the human right to healthcare is the right to equal and fair access to treatments.