Advisory: Top Health Groups Hold Health Justice Event in New York City
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On September 25 at 8 a.m. ET at the Yale Club in New York City, top health groups including Public Citizen and UNAIDS will hold “The Fight for Health Justice in an Age of Retreat,” engaging a panel of experts to tackle a range of topics including access to medicines, research and development and the threats to global health.
These groups are at the forefront of fighting recent cuts to life-saving research and imagining new solutions as we navigate an unprecedented moment for the fields of science and medicine.
Speakers will include:
- Peter Maybarduk, Director of Public Citizen Access to Medicines program
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS
- Tenu Avafia, Deputy Executive Director of UNITAID
- Amanda Banda, Global Health Advocate at COMPASS Africa
- Emily Bass, Advocate and Author of “To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa”
- Isata Dumbuya, Director of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health, Partners In Health, Sierra Leone
- Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of AVAC
- Asia Russell, Executive Director of Health GAP
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For decades, the global access to medicines movement has fought to make lifesaving science available to all. Activism and solidarity transformed the HIV response, securing generic medicines for millions for HIV and other diseases. International cooperation helped build immunization programs, push down prices of vaccines and accelerate progress toward polio eradication. These are victories worth celebrating, but they are fragile and under threat.
WHO: Leading global health experts
WHAT: “The Fight for Health Justice in an Age of Retreat”
WHERE: The Yale Club Grandballroom (50 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10017)WHEN: September 25, 2025 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET