Inside story of the generic drug boom, and im talking to you today from massachusetts. Isually based in brooklyn, new york, but we are hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true cme expoe of the generic drug industry, and takes the reader deep into that distant manufacturing plant in india and china that make most of americas lowcost medicine. Heavily reported over the course of ten years, the book follows several key characters, and industry whistleblower, and fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made you want to pursue this topic . I and in Investigative Journalism and i been at this for several decades. But in 2008 i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He has a show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe and he called me with a tip. He said listeners were called into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drug, the film having side effects of
Now on cspan2s book tv. Television for serious readers. Hi, everyone. On the executive director of the Harvard Law School library. I can vaguely see you in the distance. A great lineup of authors, we are super excited to share the work we do. I just want to share a few housekeeping items. We are recording this talk and will post it on our Youtube Channel next week. I hope you will check out online to find out more. Thank you for the support for this Book Talk Series and a big thank you to our team, parker and teresa for helping put this together in this remote space. We welcome your questions and we invite you to use the q and a teacher throughout the talk. For our sponsor. I encourage you to local bookstore, visit the harvard life very library. It is my great pleasure to introduce the Robert University professor at harvard. Director of the program on the economic Public Policy possible. In 2019, the pies from the government of norway, sometimes described in the equivalence of the nobe
Has a discussion on how the covid19 vaccine can be equitably distributed globally. This is 45 minutes. Hello welcome everyone to this important conversation that we will be having today on equitable distribution of vaccine. My name is peggy clarke im the executive director of the Innovators Group and Vice President of the Aspen Institute. Thank you so much for joining u us. Today the Global Inclusive Growth Partnership which is a partnership between the Aspen Institute and the Mastercard Center for inclusive growth, is presenting an important conversation on ensuring the equitable and effective local distribution of vaccines. On this conversation is part of a series, global inclusive recovery and rebuilding which was developed through the Mastercard Center were joining with the group in this effort to present this presentation today. Were very honored that Elizabeth Cohen of cnn is leading this conversation. And as a reminder you can submit questions when you registered. Theyre happy t
Hello, everyone. Im the codirector and of Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute and i want to thank you all for joining us today for what will be a fascinating conversation. And while the pandemic has prevented us from gathering in person on the campus, we are so excited to continue to host and informative and inspiring conversations between the leading health practitioners, advocates, artists, scientists and innovators. We are honored to be hosting these three fascinating breakthrough conversations about the new book and her research on womens brain health. Shes made it her lifework to study the female brain to provide women with a roadmap for reducing the risk of dementia. If you dont have the book yet and you are interested in buying a copy we will put a link in the chat for you to be able to get it and by more information. As we begin to dive into this conversation, let me briefly and properly introduce our wonderful speakers. Professor of neuroscience and radiology
And Vice President of the Aspen Institute. Thank you so much for joining us. Today the global conclusive Growth Partnership which is a partnership between the Aspen Institute and the mexico city for inclusive growth is presenting an important conversation on entering the and effective Global Distribution of vaccine. This conversation is part of a a series, global inclusive recovery and rebuilding which was developed with the Aspen Institute and mastercard center, and were joining with the Innovators Group in this effort to present this presentation today. We are very honored that Elizabeth Cohen at cnn is leading this conversation. As reminderel you can submit questions when you register and were happy to get to this question as part off this conversation. Thank you all, and welcome, elizabeth. Peggy, thank you soeg much ad up so glad to be here with all of you wonderful panelists thatt we arerf going have with us. Nearly ten months into this outbreak covid19 is exposing deep inequitie