JHU UAEM’s mission is to improve aspects of JHU’s Report Card with regards to innovation, access, transparency, empowerment, and COVID-19 by advocating for open source research while promoting and managing R&D at Hopkins for those who are disproportionately affected by the access to medicines crisis. Our work is guided at all times by principles of non-partisanship, democracy, transparency, solidarity, and respect.
(1) Promote access to medicines and medical innovations where barriers exist primarily by changing norms and practices around academic patenting and licensing, supported by our own independent research.
(2) Ensure that Hopkins medical research meets the needs of people worldwide and actively supports the creation of new needs-based approaches to R&D.
(3) Empower Hopkins students to respond to the biomedical access and innovation crisis by advocating for the most promising biomedical R&D system from the local to the national level that works for all.