Data Visualization & Infographic Design | 2023

Classroom brief: To collect key information from a TED video and create graphic displays, which turn data into lucid information. 

This talk is by Ellen ‘t Hoen, an independent medicines law and policy consultant. In 2009, she founded the Medicines Patent Pool at WHO/UNITAID, to accelerate the availability of low-cost HIV treatments, especially antiretroviral medicines, in developing countries through patent licensing.

Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop, but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. 

Ellen ‘t Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool.