UAEM Maastricht
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| Founded | 2014 |
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| Focus | accessibility to essential medicine |
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Key people | Hanna Schenck, Rosa Papadantonaki, Louisa Spaans, Eunice Godevi, Melis Altan, Jasmijn Coppens, Victoria von Salmuth |
| Subsidiaries | Maastricht University |
Volunteers | 35 |
| Slogan | "Medicines for people not for profits" |
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UAEM Maastricht chapter is the first chapter in The Netherlands that succeeded in making an agreement with the university signing the Socially Responsible Research and Licensing (SRRL) policy. "Access to Medicine" is the aim of the organization with focus on the Research and Development system and shared decision making with Maastricht University to actively pursue the goals drafted in Socially Responsible Research and Licensing (SRRL) policy. UAEM Maastricht has two active taskforces namely policy and awareness.[1][2]
SRRL
On the 8th of December 2015, Prof. Dr. Martin Paul, president of Maastricht University, signed the agreement in the course of a big event organized by UAEM Maastricht and the Ambassador lecture series.
As Jeffrie, the co-founder of UAEM Maastricht, mentioned in his speech, “this was not an act of generosity, but a compelling necessity”, because the decision of our university is based on moral justice. By signing this policy Maastricht University agrees on making research more transparent, improving research on neglected diseases and trying to integrate the topics into the curriculum of the university.[3]
A2M week
From the 14th until the 20th of November 2016 UAEM Maastricht participated at the “Access to Medicines Week” that takes place once a year all around the globe. A series of awareness-raising events, including this year's notable lecture on Malaria Resistance given by Bart Knols [4] (President of the Dutch Malaria Foundation [5]) and movie-night screening of the documentary "Resistance",[6] were organized to deal with the issue of Antimicrobial Resistance and the shortcomings in antibiotic research.
Board
The board members of UAEM Maastricht 2016/2017 are Hanna Schenck, Rosa Papadantonaki, Jasmijn Coppens, Eunice Godevi, Victoria von Salmuth, Melis Altan and Louisa Spaans.