Health innovations for everyone
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This venture is a non-profit initiative to democratise medical innovations. Our focus is on applying freely-available computational-science software to innovate design of medical & health products. We view Big Pharma's dominance & control as a large threat to everyone's health.
Medical interventions: injustice from pharmaceutical companies
Medical research is often supported by a collaboration between scientists and pharmaceutical companies. As these private companies usually have maximising profits as their primary motive, this leads to medical breakthrus that don't have the effect on society as they perhaps should. For instance, most COVID vaccines went initially to relatively rich countries, while developing countries struggled to afford the financial 'cost'.
Our research approach
Research projects like ours provide an alternative, where the research and associated methodology are more inclusive & transparent, allowing more people to contribute while also not restricting access. This is in contrast to pharmaceutical companies that put up walls around 'their' research using Intellectual Property laws, arguably deceleration innovation. More assertively, our organisation is refuting the morally-devoid bullshit that these companies, and the folks with PhDs enabling this behaviour, are spruiking.
Getting involved
Our non-profit association aims to support better pandemic preparation by the World Health Organization. Check our Governing Rules for more about how we aim to function. If you're interested in co-design this initiative please get in touch. For example we're wanting to develop an online course fromĀ existing content using Moodle.