GETTING CURIOUS | Has Our Medicine System Expired? with Priti Krishtel

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

America’s first medical patents date back to the 1790s—and patents still inform our every prescription, vaccine, and pharmacy run. This week on Getting Curious, Priti Krishtel joins Jonathan to break down the basics on medical patents. Why do they exist? Who do they serve? And how equitable are they? Priti Krishtel is a health justice lawyer and co-founder of I-MAK, a non-profit building a more just and equitable medicines system. She has spent nearly two decades exposing structural inequities affecting access to medicines and vaccines across the Global South and in the United States. You can follow Priti on Twitter @pritikrishtel. I-MAK is on Twitter @IMAKglobal and at i-mak.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for gorgeous
0:04.6	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me
0:08.9	curious. On today's episode I'm joined by Priti Christel,
0:13.2	where I ask her, how has our medicine system expired?
0:17.1	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:21.8	I'm so excited to welcome to our show, Prithee Christel.
0:25.8	You are a health dress, a lawyer, and you also
0:27.6	co-founded IMAX, which is a nonprofit building,
0:30.9	a more equitable medicine system.
0:34.7	That is a big hard job that you were doing.
0:40.4	So thanks for having me, Jonathan.
0:44.2	It is a big job.
0:46.7	It's a big job and there's a lot of us doing it. The access to medicines movement were all over the world and there are people in
0:51.4	every continent who are fighting for a more just medicine system so that
0:56.3	treatments and vaccines and testing reaches everybody who needs it.
0:59.7	Okay, so here's the thing.
1:03.0	I think that you are such an incredible person to talk to about this because you are a health justice lawyer.
1:10.0	I didn't even know that health justice lawyers existed before I read about you and
1:15.2	listen to some of the podcast that you've done. I think we all have a stake in
1:18.9	obvious access to medicine. I've lived it as someone who's living with HIV.
1:23.6	That is like its whole own other podcast and access to those drugs
1:26.7	that's like a whole other series of podcasts.
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