This TED Talk features health justice advocate Preeti Krischdel, recorded live at TED Women 2019.

For my husband, it was love at first sight. Here's what happened. Years ago, Rudy, who I had strictly put in the friend zone at the time,

came over to my house and met my dad,

a pharmaceutical scientist who had just retired

after bringing a drug to market.

My dad said,

you probably wouldn't have heard of it.

It's for IPF, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Rudy paused for a long time,

and then he said,

that's the disease that took my father's life 15 years ago.

Rudy says that this is the moment he fell in love.

With my father.

Even though it was too late for my dad to save his,

he felt that destiny had delivered us this full circle moment.

In my family, we have a special love for my father's inventions,

and in particular, we have a reverence for his patents.

We have framed patents on the wall in our house,

and there's a recognition in our family

that everything I've been able to do,

college, law school, health justice work,

all of it is because America enabled my father

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