Jaykumar Menon
Open Source Pharma and Respiratory Pandemics
Jaykumar Menon
Open Source Pharma and Respiratory Pandemics
Jaykumar Menon is an international human rights lawyer, scholar, and social entrepreneur. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. His research, teachings and practice focus on innovative approaches to realizing basic human rights for a billion or more people. He is also a founder of The India Nutrition Initiative, which is developing salt double-fortified with iron and iodine, to help address the world's most widespread form of malnutrition, iron deficiency, which afflicts 2 billion people, disproportionately women and children. #opensourcepharma #jaykumarmenon
The Open Source Pharma Foundation is a global non-profit organization with centers in Bangalore, Paris, and New York. We seek to discover new drugs, and a new way to discover drugs. Our aim is to develop affordable new therapies in areas of great health need, by using open source principles derived from the software industry.
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