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Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, has made the cost of prescription drugs and their availability the subject of his latest work. His book, Prescription for Change: 22 Reasons Why and How We Can Cure our Sick Medicines System, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2017.

Previous to his work at the law school, he served as director of operations for the Indiana-Kenya Partnership/AMPATH, executive director of ACLU of Indiana, and as a staff attorney with Indiana Legal Services. Now, he coordinates the group PFAM: People of Faith for Access to Medicines.

Professor Quigley is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights, multiple mass media articles and columns, and three earlier books: If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement (Cornell University Press, 2015), How Human Rights Can Build Haiti: The Activists, the Lawyers, and the Grassroots Movement (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014), and Walking Together, Walking Far: How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership Is Winning the Fight Against the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Professor Quigley is a clinical professor of law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Clinic students advocate for the rights of the poor, with a special focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health.