Episode 73: Open Source Solutions with Jaykumar Menon - a podcast by Florence Adu

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week my guest is a social entrepreneur that is on the cutting edge of solving for some of our most pressing global challenges. In this timely conversation I meet with Jaykumar Menon, an international human rights lawyer plying his craft at the intersection of human rights and global health. He is a founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation (https://www.opensourcepharma.net/), which aims to create a new paradigm for drug discovery, and generate affordable new cures in areas of great health need. He is also a founder of The India Nutrition Initiative, which is developing “DFS”, a salt that is double-fortified with iron and iodine, to address malnutrition caused by iron deficiency. DFS has reached millions of people.In his work as a lawyer, he has represented the student leaders of Tiananmen Square, victims of the Bosnian genocide, freed a man from death row, and helped free an innocent man serving life for murder as the fifteenth lawyer to take up the case. He is a recipient of the Brown Alumni Association’s highest honor, given to one graduate per year. A Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University. Jaykumar holds a JD and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA from Brown University.
I am sure this discussion will be plenty of food for thought and practice; I encourage you to read on, visit and get involved with this pioneering work!Where to find Jaykumar:
www.ospfound.org (https://www.ospfound.org/)On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaykumar-menon-5709a/)
On Twitter (https://twitter.com/jaykumar_menon?lang=en)On Facbook (https://www.facebook.com/opensourcepharma/)
What's Jaykumar reading?The Stoics (https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-philosophers-the-stoics/) and Marcus Aurelius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius)
Joan Dideon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion)Ernest Hemingway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway)
Sherwood Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson)Tom Wolfe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe)
Bruce Chatwin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Chatwin)Arundhati Roy (https://www.amazon.com/Arundhati-Roy/e/B000AP7ZT4)
Other topics of interest:XPRIZE Foundation (https://www.xprize.org/)
Dr. Robert Gallo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gallo)March of Dimes (https://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/who-we-are.aspx)
University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (https://tdu.edu.in/)The Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (I-AIM) (https://www.iaimhealthcare.org/)
8 Limbs of Yoga (https://liforme.com/blogs/blog/8-limbs-yoga-explained)The Five Tibetan Rites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites)
Special Guest: Jaykumar Menon.

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