In this episode, Amie & Sara discuss how Canada's public Research & Development funding should deliver public health outcomes with Dr. Jason Nickerson, the Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ottawa, Canada.

"Many governments, including Canada’s, fund critically important medical R&D using public money... but rarely demand that the resulting health innovations themselves be safeguarded for public health, or be made affordable and accessible to those who need them. Instead, the current system usually sees lifesaving medicines and other health technologies sold to private companies, who are then free to decide who gets access and at what price. Often that means selling their products back to the taxpayers who funded the development of these medicines in the first place – at increasingly high, unaffordable prices."  We must do better and hold our governments accountable, peoples lives depend on it.