Merith Basey

Merith’s commitment to making medicine affordable began more than 20 years ago while living and working with type 1 diabetes communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. Through this formative grassroots organizing combined with a Master’s degree at LSHTM she was motivated to co-found the 100 Campaign in 2012, aimed at re-framing the narrative around insulin access as a human rights issue and reducing the barriers to access. Prior to her leadership at Patients For Affordable Drugs, Merith led UAEM North America working to ensure that drugs developed with public funds in university labs are accessible to the people who need them. Merith is motivated about fighting for a world where no one is sick because they are poor, or is poor because they are sick.

Merith serves on the Board of the Center for Artistic Activism and on the Technical Advisory Committee of the ACCISS study addressing the Challenges and Constraints of the Insulin Sources and Supply and speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese. She has lived on 4 continents and in 8 countries.