Why the COVID-19 pandemic should be a call for action to advance equitable access to medicines

Affiliations

• ¹ Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ² WHO Collaborating Center for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector and Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ³ WHO Collaborating Center for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector and Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. tmackey@ucsd.edu.
• ⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA. tmackey@ucsd.edu.
• ⁵ Department of Healthcare Research and Policy, University of California, San Diego - Extension, San Diego, USA. tmackey@ucsd.edu.
• ⁶ Global Health Policy Institute, San Diego, CA, USA. tmackey@ucsd.edu.