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Professor Quigley Takes Part in Council on Foreign Relations Conference Call on American Health Care Debate
09/15/2017
Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, took part in a Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call on September 6.
The discussion centered around how faith communities have shaped the debate on health care in America. Making prescription medicines affordable is the subject of Professor Quigley’s current research. His latest book, Prescription for the People: An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All, will be published in November by Cornell University Press.
In the work, he advocates for a shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines. Globally, 10 million people die each year because they are unable to pay for medicines that would save them. Patients and activists are aiming to make all essential medicines affordable by claiming them as a public good and a human right.
Professor Quigley teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic at IU McKinney, and is the founder of People of Faith For Access to Medicines, or PFAM.
