Open Source Pharma and Respiratory Pandemics | Jaykumar Menon | Talks at Google
Jaykumar Menon, founder and chair of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, discusses how the foundation aims to generate affordable new cures in areas of great health need and to create an open source ecosystem for drug discovery. He focuses on open innovation in the pharma space, and the respiratory pandemic response using these findings. By using open source principles, and nurturing a movement, we are discovering affordable medicines and vaccines in areas of great health need, and building an alternate system. Collaborators to date include Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Government of India, US NIH, and others.
Jaykumar Menon is an international human rights lawyer, scholar, and social entrepreneur. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. His research, teachings and practice focus on innovative approaches to realizing basic human rights for a billion or more people. He is also a founder of The India Nutrition Initiative, which is developing salt double-fortified with iron and iodine (“DFS”), to help address the world’s most widespread form of malnutrition, iron deficiency, which afflicts 2 billion people, disproportionately women and children. DFS is currently reaching over 10 million people. Jaykumar is a winner of the William Rogers Award, the Brown Alumni Association’s highest honor, given to one graduate annually, for “leading a life of usefulness and reputation”. He holds a JD and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University along with a BA degree and one year of medical school at Brown. Through his creative and strategic approach, he hopes to bring about large-scale social change in the communities he works with.
Moderated by Unni Narayanan.
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