SOBRE NOSOTROS Our Story Hear from our team of activists! Want to get involved? JOIN US VIEW 2-YEAR IMPACT REPORT Core Team THE TEAM The majority of our members are people of color and from communities most affected by COVID-19. Our 2 0 person core team makes our decisions, together. Snigdha Allaparthi (she/her) Regional Organizer (California) Fourth year undergraduate student studying Neurobiology and Toxicology at UC Berkeley. She is an active member of her local PIHE Chapter at UC Berkeley, where she teaches local high school and fellow college students about the importance of public health and health equity. She also helps run Splash at Berkeley, an organization that pushes for educational equity opportunities across the Bay Area for high school students. Emma Baah-Binney* (she/her) R2H Board President, State Captain (OH) Medical Sciences degree with a minor in French and a Global Health Studies certificate. Originally from Accra, Ghana, she has experienced the effects of health inequity and is interested in global health and working to ensure affordable accessible healthcare for all. She currently volunteers with Crossroad Health Center a clinic that serves the underrepresented population of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH. Vidya Babu (she/her) Communications Team Student in biology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is involved in neuroimmunology and computational biology research, undergraduate student publications, as well as community health education. Chicago, IL. Giovanna Braganza, MPH State Captain (NY) Health policy and research professional working to address health disparities such as food insecurity, health care coverage and access in New York State. She has past experience in community organizing through GlobeMed and Doctors for Camp Closure (D4CC). She earned her Masters of Public Health at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. Giovanna’s passion for global vaccine equity and advocacy for essential workers is in memory of her father who was killed by COVID-19 in April 2020. Aaron Chang (he/him) Fundraising Team Medical device entrepreneur who loves reading, running, and basketball. Paul Davis § (he/him) Policy Director Co-led grassroots and legislative campaigns that won >99% reductions in HIV drug prices for impoverished countries, and got life-saving medicines to 26 million people with HIV worldwide (so far); helped organize a 150+ city nationwide birddog/civil disobedience movement to save the ACA, oppose Trump tax cuts, and strike at other post-2016 flashpoints. Alumni of ACT UP, PIH, UAEM, KEI, Doctors for America, Seattle Tenants Union, co-founded Health GAP and Birddog Nation. Baltimore, MD Ashwini Deshpande (she/her) Events Team Student studying Biology, Economics & Spanish at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has worked extensively in the nonprofit sector and focuses on community-based research and education, economics and engagement, and is organizing to realize the universal right to healthcare. Chicago, IL. Analie Fernandes (she/her) State Captain (IN) Student pursuing a political science and pre-health degree at the University of Notre Dame. She has a background in organizing and advocacy through her involvement with PIH Engage and GlobeMed. She is passionate about public health, and dedicated to the fight to establish equitable access to healthcare. In her free time she loves to read and hike. South Bend, IN. Leah Jo Figueroa Carnine, PA (she/her) State Captain (OR) Community organizer and primary care PA, recently moved to her hometown of Eugene to practice medicine after being part of migrant and racial justice organizing in the Southwest for over a decade, and helping build a base of white people taking action for racial justice with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). She’s been fortunate to be part of integrating queer and trans health, harm reduction and an anti-oppression framework into her community health work, and trauma informed learning into medicine and liberation work. She’s passionate about the intersections of transformative health care and collective liberation. Ali Greenberg, MSPH* (she/her) Team Co-Coordinator Medical student organizing to integrate social justice into curriculum with White Coats for Black Lives. She has worked in grassroots organizing for access to healthcare and medicines for all since 2011. She was the Advocacy & Campaigns Officer for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and now sits on UAEM's Executive Committee and works locally with SNaHP. She was on the Steering Committee for Right Care Alliance and has interned for Socially Responsible Surgery, the International Vaccine Access Center, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative. New York City, NY Leslye Heilig, MD (she/her) Policy Team Volunteer advocacy leader and mentor with Together Women Rise and RESULTS. She studied at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and did her pediatric residency at University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital. She practiced general pediatrics in rural communities in New England for 30 years and since retiring has been an active volunteer promoting global gender equality, human rights, and global health equity through multiple organizations including RESULTS, Together Women Rise (previously called Dining for Women), CARE, Oxfam. Abby Heller (she/her) State Captain (NJ) Lab manager in an autism and muscular dystrophy research lab at Child Health Institute of New Jersey. She likes to play guitar, cook, run, and do puzzles -- and campaign for global justice. Meghna Kaul, MPH § (She/her) State Captain (CO) Recent MPH Health Policy graduate from George Washington University. Driven to action by the experiences of my family and loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. I am passionate about reducing disparities and inequities in healthcare, as well as mitigating environmental factors which affect our health. I believe in a holistic approach to health, including addressing social determinants of health, emphasizing health education and preventive care, and integrative medicine. In my free time I like to hike around the Foothills near Boulder, play my ukulele, explore museums, try out new recipes and recently have been dabbling in weightlifting. Jennifer M. Koo (she/her) State Captain (CT) Fights oppression as a RESULTS Anti-Poverty Leader. Jennn-with-three-Ns strives to center health equity, racial justice, sustainability, disability accessibility/inclusion, and creativity in all her endeavors. She uses her voice (through research, narrative, & public policy) to dismantle racially-rooted health disparities and navigate the social determinants of health. To stay balanced, Jennn runs, hikes, gardens, meditates, & keeps a gratitude journal! Andrew Lewis (he/him) State Captain (CA) Son of a Peruvian immigrant who has led a range of social impact campaigns across Los Angeles County and California, focusing on housing, the environment, and labor rights. Active with AFSCME 3299, Los Angeles Tenants Union, ACCE. Los Angeles, CA Maureen Luba She/her Maureen Luba is a global health advocate from Malawi with more than 10 years’ experience in HIV advocacy. She is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School. Harnoor Mann* (she/her) State Captain (OH) Student in Journalism and Medical Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She has focused her reporting on the intersection of grassroots movements and human rights advocacy including organizing efforts with the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, youth-led Latinx groups and BLM Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH. Lauren McCormick (she/her) Events Team Lead Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Human Immunology and vaccine research. Organized as Team Coordinator for UNC-Chapel Hill PIH Engage, and working with the Fund for Global Health as an Advocacy Fellow. She was previously involved in anthropological research regarding water, sanitation, and hygiene in Jharkhand, India. Washington, DC Erika McKibben (she/her) State Captain (GA) Outreach and Engagement Co-Team Lead Community Advocate in Georgia wanting to be the voice for her community making sure there is equity and equality in underserved communities regarding health care. Her passion for advocacy work has span about 10 years working with victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault both as a Civilian and as a Military Contractor. After graduating from High School, she served in both U.S.Navy and U.S. Army. She has an Undergraduate and master's degree in Criminal Justice as well as a proud Disabled Veteran. She is an active member of the Child Fatality Review Board/MDT and Clayton County Task Force. She was chosen as a Georiga Obama Fellow to assist with re-election for president, worked as a Pollworker in GA for both recounts, and worked on Sen. Osoff campaign to get people registered to vote as well as support his political views. The death of her father from COVID-19 on April 7, 2020 has made Erika even more passionate, fighting to make sure another deadly pandemic does not take more lives. Utkarsh Mehta (he/him) State Captain (WA) Contact Congress team at Rebuilding Alliance. NorCal team at RESULTS. Undergraduate student from India. Lobby Action Alumni at Today's Student Coalition. Lobby alum at Friends Committee on National Legislation. Advocacy Team Lead at #IndiaCovidSOS. Hyderabad, India/Sacramento, CA Catherine Myers (she/her) State Captain (ME) Senior at the University of Connecticut studying Allied Health Sciences and Spanish. She has been involved with the PIH Engage team at UConn where she is currently a co-team coordinator. She loves to hike, advocate for change, run, drink coffee, organize for justice and travel. Storrs, CT Chris Noble § (he/him) Organizing Co-Lead Regional Organizer (New England) Public Health Policy and Community Organizer. Former community fellow for Marshall Ganz Leadership, Organizing and Action Program at Harvard Kennedy School and community organizer with Health Care For All, Right Care Alliance, MassCare, Universities Allied For Essential Medicines, Partners in Health Engage, and the 100 Campaign. Has worked in Latin America, East and Southern Africa on health system implementation science with Partners in Health and Harvard Medical School. Called to health justice advocacy from a personal diagnosis of type one diabetes as a child and understanding first hand the importance of fighting for health care as a human right guaranteed to all. Steadily giving big pharma hell from Cambridge, MA. Dom Oddo § (he/him) Regional Organizer (Southwest) Graduate student at the University of New Mexico in the Astrophysics PhD program, and serves as state captain for both New Mexico and Arizona. Although he does scientific research by trade, he is dedicated to the realization of the universal right to health. Albuquerque, NM. Johain Ounadjela* (he/him) Regional Organizer (Northwest) Works in genomics research at the Broad Institute with a particular focus on decoding the human placenta, the least understood organ in the body, with the ultimate desire to improve maternal health outcomes and understand more about pregnancy. He seeks to investigate global health disparities through the lens of biomedical research and clinical work, and is a part of PIH Engage Boston as well as a volunteer at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Krishna Prabhu, MD, MSc (he/him) State Captain (MN) Dr. Krishna Prabhu is an internal medicine physician. He has been a frontline healthcare worker from the beginning of the COVID pandemic, caring for hospitalized and critically ill patients. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Master's degree in Social Policy from the University of Oxford. He has been a global health activist for over a decade and serves as State Captain for Minnesota for Right to Health Action. * denotes leadership on the Right to Health Action Board § = Staff or Fellow

ORGANIZING TO PANDEMIC-PROOF THE PLANET. Climate change and globalization are making pandemics come faster and get worse. Help us leverage real change, like a crowbar in the cracks of the systems exposed by COVID. YOUR DONATION IMPACT $28 Covers the cost of sending 25,000 petitions demanding action for COVID-19 $99 Funds a training on how to "birddog" politicians in the midterms, putting them on the spot with COVID stories and demands for action $700 One local direct action to protest almost seven million COVID deaths worldwide $46 Staff time costs of getting together one MOC meeting with constituents $350 Pays 1/2 cost for supplies, permits and sometimes bail for one of the in-person direct actions we organize around the country $1000 Covers a stipend for one of our State Captains and Regional Organizers, who organize hundreds of meetings with elected officials every month

COVID, CLIMA Y COMUNIDAD Este Web-In del Derecho a la Salud utilizará una lente participativa centrada en la comunidad para explorar cómo se conectan COVID-19 y el clima. Después de aprender de un panel de oradores con amplia experiencia en movilización comunitaria, justicia climática y One Health, nos organizaremos en pequeños grupos interactivos que visualizan y cocrean soluciones sostenibles para optimizar la salud planetaria, prevenir futuras pandemias y lograr justicia para todos . Al cultivar modelos para una colaboración efectiva dentro de nuestra comunidad global diversa, juntos crearemos el impulso para un movimiento transformador que vincule directamente la sostenibilidad ambiental con la salud humana. ¡Únase a nosotros el martes 4 de agosto a las 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST para un ayuntamiento virtual! Nuestros distinguidos oradores informarán a los medios sobre un conjunto de recomendaciones hechas por más de 1,500 profesionales de la salud y expertos que instan a Joe Biden a adoptar un conjunto de políticas para detener la crisis ahora, reconstruir un mundo mejor y prevenir las pandemias del futuro. Los oradores también comentarán sobre el estado de las negociaciones de COVID-4 en curso en el Congreso. Tenemos el honor de albergar a estos líderes dinámicos: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, es un profesor de economía de renombre mundial, autor superventas, líder en desarrollo sostenible y asesor principal de la ONU. Es un destacado experto en desarrollo económico, macroeconomía global, el escape de la pobreza extrema, el control del SIDA, la malaria y otras enfermedades, y la batalla contra el cambio climático inducido por el hombre. Sachs fue co-receptor del Premio Blue Planet por su liderazgo ambiental y ha sido nombrado dos veces entre los líderes mundiales más influyentes de la revista Time. El New York Times calificó a Sachs como "probablemente el economista más importante del mundo". Los profesores Sachs se desempeñan como Director del Centro para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Universidad de Columbia y fue Director del Instituto de la Tierra de 2002 a 2016. Abdul El-Sayed, MD Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, es médico, epidemiólogo, activista progresista, educador, autor, orador y presentador de podcast. Es presidente de Southpaw Michigan y colaborador político en CNN. Es autor de Healing Politics, y pide una política de empatía para curar nuestra epidemia de inseguridad, y el próximo Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide with Dr. Micah Johnson. Es el presentador de "America Dissected", un podcast de Crooked Media, que va más allá de los titulares para explorar lo que realmente importa para nuestra salud. Es un Académico Residente en la Universidad Estatal de Wayne y en la Universidad Americana que enseña sobre la interacción de la salud pública, las políticas públicas y la política. Rishi Rattan, MD Rishi Rattan, MD, es profesor asociado de cirugía en la Universidad de Miami y cirujano de traumatología y cuidados críticos en el Jackson Memorial Hospital, uno de los hospitales públicos más grandes del país. Actualmente está en primera línea en el epicentro actual de la pandemia de COVID. El Dr. Rattan ocupa múltiples puestos de campo y docentes en el Sistema Médico Nacional de Desastres en respuesta a desastres y emergencias. Él capacita a agencias civiles, gubernamentales y militares nacionales y extranjeras en respuesta a emergencias en desastres, situaciones humanitarias, conflictos y otros entornos austeros. Da conferencias en universidades y escuelas profesionales a nivel internacional. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en prensa científica y popular y traducido a múltiples idiomas. Hannah Lichtsinn, MD Hannah Lichtsinn, MD, FAAP, es internista y pediatra de HealthPartners en St. Paul, MN y profesora asistente de medicina en la Universidad de Minnesota. Es cofundadora de la Minnesota Immigrant Health Alliance (MIHA), copresidenta de la organización de defensa de la salud Our Stories. Our Health., Y miembro de la junta del capítulo de Minnesota de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (MNAPP). También es miembro de 2020-2021 de Líderes en Políticas de Salud de la Sociedad de Medicina Interna General (SGIM).

VIRTUAL PROTEST: COVID Activists Share Their Stories, DEMAND Congress Act for Vaccine Justice Congress to pandemic-pummeled planet: “DROP DEAD” PROMINENT VOICES OF COVID PROTEST CONGRESSIONAL COLLAPSE, DEMAND ACTION Virtual protest recording date: Wednesday, March 9th | 12pm ET [Washington DC] Just before the second anniversary of COVID, prominent COVID movement leaders protested the collapse of a bipartisan COVID supplemental relief deal in Congress, and demanded action to fund global vaccinations and to prevent future pandemics. With hundreds of supporters viewing, the activists recorded one hour of emotional quotes and analysis from leaders personally impacted by COVID, representing hundreds of thousands of people nationwide from from Right to Health Action, Marked by COVID, COVID-19 Long-Haulers Outreach, and COVID-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends. The speakers can be contacted for a reaction to the collapse of a $15 billion emergency supplemental in Congress today - a failure in the House of Representatives that unfolded just hours after these fierce women pled for Congressional action. "Congress demonstrated is has learned absolutely nothing from two years of COVID and one million deaths in America," said Dr. Tulika Singh, from Right to Health Action. "There will be consequences from this shortsighted failure. Most importantly, millions more will die the longer we delay vaccine sharing. But also, there will be accountability on the campaign trail for those responsible for the collapse of this bipartisan deal. Nine million of us who have lost loved ones and the millions more older voters and immune-compromised people being left behind cannot 'move on' or 'get back to normal'. We will remember what our elected officials did this week, and follow up with direct actions during the midterms." "Congress behaved as if we are already done with COVID," continued Dr. Singh, who lost her grandmother. "But a new, more contagious variant is already surging worldwide, in India and UK, and amounting to more than 11% of the cases in America as of March 5th. Hong Kong is facing lockdown today, with overflowing hospitals and morgues.” "The decision to reject global vaccination funding is a decision for another year of worldwide pandemic," said Dr. Singh. "Voters have COVID incompetence fatigue, and will hold our leader to the fire for this.” This week began with the six millionth COVID death worldwide, and will also include March 11th-the grim second anniversary of WHO’s determination that COVID-19 is a global pandemic. While the nation nears one million Americans killed by COVID, March 11th will also be the deadline for Congress to pass a five-month-overdue budget for fiscal year 2022. Yet even the hard fought $5 billion for global vaccines included in the omnibus–only one quarter of what is needed, according to USAID–was too much for Congress to appropriate. On Wednesday, March 9th, well known activists and emerging movement leaders shared their personal stories of loss, anger, and made urgent pleas for Congress to include supplemental funds for global vaccines, domestic COVID response, and pandemic prevention worldwide in this week’s omnibus spending vote. The activists pledged to be a presence on the campaign trail in the months ahead, putting MOCs and candidates on the spot with tough questions that hold them accountable for today’s murderous collapse. Sabila Khan, co-founder of COVID-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends, shares, “I am doing this work in honor of my father, Shafqat Khan. With our nation's rush towards ‘normal,’ he, like so many millions around the world who died terrible and traumatic deaths, is being pushed aside as an inconvenient statistic. I won't rest until we recenter the COVID conversation around the heartbreaking human toll of this virus and especially around those communities it has disproportionately impacted: BIPOC, the elderly, the poor, chronically ill, and disabled.” SPEAKERS IN THE RECORDING: Activists who have lost loved ones, are struggling with long term effects of COVID, or are doctors treating COVID patients at the front-line will share their personal stories of pain, honor the memories of their lost loved ones, and call on Congress to take bold, immediate action to combat the pandemic. Kristin Urquiza, Founder, Marked By COVID, whose father was killed by COVID after trusting AZ Governor Ducey’s claim that it was “safe to resume normal activities”. Kristin gave a fiery call to action in prime-time during the Democratic National Convention. CONTACT: kristin@markedbycovid.com Sabila Khan, co-founded COVID-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends – the largest collection of COVID bereaved in the world--four days after losing her community activist father, Shafqat Khan, to the virus in April 2020. She has since lost three more family members. CONTACT: sabilarasulkhan@gmail.com Dr. Tulika Singh, PhD, MPH, public health scientist developing vaccines for emerging infections at UC Berkeley who lost her grandmother to COVID-19 in India in October 2020. R2H Action. CONTACT: tulika.singh@r2haction.org Dr. Hannah Lichtsinn, internist and pediatrician in Minneapolis, MN and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and R2H Action member. CONTACT: hshacter@gmail.com Janeth Nuñez del Prado, a social worker in Albuquerque and regional leader for Marked By COVID, whose father died in Bolivia days before traveling to the USA for a vaccine in May 2021. CONTACT: jnunezdelprado@gmail.com Giovanna Braganza, MPH, a public health policy researcher and R2H Action State Captain from New York, NY, will be sharing the story of her immigrant father who was lost to COVID-19 in April 2020. CONTACT: Amanda Finley, a COVID survivor who still experiences negative health effects, and founder of COVID-19 Long-Haulers Outreach. CONTACT: Amanda@covidlonghaulers.global Erika Mckibben, R2Her and domestic violence outreach advocate and health activist from Atlanta, GA, will be moderating and sharing the story of her father who was lost to COVID-19 in April 2020. CONTACT: mckibben666@gmail.com WHY: Activists called for at least $17 billion in emergency funds for global vaccines and $850 million for a global fund for pandemic prevention in the March 11th appropriations package – $12.85 billion more than the $5 billion sum for global vaccines that ultimately failed. Right to Health Action, along with coalition partners, has been fighting for a global fund for pandemics for the last two years. 120 members of Congress joined us to urge the White House to provide $2 billion in seed funding for a global pandemic prevention fund in a bipartisan letter. 80 members of Congress already asked appropriators for $17 billion for global vaccines, in addition to a bipartisan letter addressed to President Biden sent by 14 Senators urging action to vaccinate the world. The activists will also speak in favor of the domestic funds needed to respond, rebuild and prepare included in the President’s emergency supplemental request. -end- FAILURE on global vaccines on 2nd anniversary of WHO pandemic declaration

We are calling for immediate action by the Biden Administration to ensure there are enough vaccines in supply to solve this global crisis.  Scientists, Academics and Experts Call on Joe Biden for global vaccine manufacturing If you are a health professional or student, academic, scientist or public health worker, please join this expert letter to the Biden Administration calling for a global plan to vaccinate everyone, everywhere. COVID-19 has illuminated the inequalities that bring accelerating waves of pandemics that disproportionately impact those who were already made poor and sick. With billions waiting in line for vaccines the public paid to invent, and variants spreading unchecked, the world can't wait. The IMF has published that $50 billion to vaccinate the world will create $9 TRILLION in savings by 2025 — a 267% return on investment almost immediately . Please join this experts open letter u rging the Biden Administration to ensure there are enough vaccines to solve this global crisis. Full text of the letter is here , below the endorsement form. Experts Letter Text FULL TEXT: EXPERTS CALL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR A GLOBAL COVID-19 VACCINE PLAN

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Join our upocming virtual event featuring Dr. Gregg Gonsalves, Watch the recording of our Right to Health Action Web-In, “COVID-19: Not Gone, Yet Forgotten” amplifies the voices that our government has forgotten and shed light on the current and long term consequences of COVID-19 that our government is neglecting. We refuse to accept the status quo. We know that our leaders can do better. Our government must invest in health structure and climate justice to fight this pandemic and prevent more needless loss and suffering. PANEL SPEAKERS Expert in policy modeling of infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. His research focuses on the use of quantitative models for improving the response to epidemic diseases. For more than 30 years, he worked on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues with several organizations, including ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa. He was also a fellow at the Open Society Foundations and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2011-2012. He is a 2011 graduate of Yale College and received his PhD from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/School of Public Health in 2017. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Gregg Gonsalves Policy director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She also serves as a commissioner on the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee obtained her Master’s in Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill and began working with disabled people to help them find work and independence in their communities at the NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. For Mia’s work on the Women’s March on Washington, she was named by Glamour Magazine as one of 2017’s Women of the Year Award. She was also recognized by She the People as one of 20 Women of Color in Politics to Watch in 2020, awarded the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from UNC School of Social Work, and 2022 AAPI Victory Fund's Next Generation Leaders honoree. Mia Ives-Rublee Community advocate from Georgia working to be a voice for her community to ensure there is health equity and equality in underserved communities. Her passion for advocacy work has spanned more than10 years working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault both as a civilian and as a military contractor. After graduating from high school, she served in both U.S. Navy and U.S. Army and is a proud disabled veteran. She has an Bachelor’sand Master's degree in Criminal Justice.. Erikais an active member of the Child Fatality Review Board/MDT and Clayton County Task Force. She was chosen as a Georiga Obama Fellow to assist with the re-election campaign, worked as a pollworker in GA for both recounts, and worked on Sen. Osoff’s campaign to get people registered to vote.The passing of her father from COVID-19 on April 7, 2020 led her to become an activist with Right to Health Action fighting against future pandemics. Erika Mckibben Founder and president of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, a non-profit whose mission is to advance the understanding of Long COVID and expedite solutions and assistance for Longhaulers through advocacy, education research and support. Karyn has a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science and Health Promotion and was a Firefighter/ Paramedic when infected with COVID-19 in March 2020. She sits on the advisory board of the Long COVID Research Fund serves on the Ancillary Studies Oversight Committee for the NIH’s RECOVER Initiative, a nationwide study into Long COVID, and is a single mom trying to navigate being newly disabled. Karyn Bishof

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Moderna plays Squid Games with the people's vaccine. 067A9377 067A9351 067A9580 067A9377 1/6 PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: [Jon Shaffer] [(503) 789-4677] [jon.shaffer@r2haction.org ] WHAT: ~20 activists dressed as henchmen from the hit Netflix series “Squid Game” delivering prop “quarterly earnings” money to Moderna headquarters; release of parody “leaked footage ” of Moderna leaders celebrating Biden’s unwillingness to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel vaccine technology sharing WHEN: 9am Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 WHERE: Moderna Headquarters, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 11/04/2021, Cambridge, MA -- As Moderna held its quarterly shareholder meeting Thursday morning, global vaccine equity activists dressed as antagonists from the hit Netflix series “Squid Game” descended upon the Moderna headquarters to deliver mock “quarterly earnings” in the form of wheelbarrows and briefcases full of cash. According to the creator of “Squid Game, global vaccine access disparities are a facet of the unequal global economic order the series critiques. The activists also released parody “leaked footage” from the morning’s shareholder meeting, in which Moderna leaders remark that a prolonged pandemic is in their financial interests and celebrate President Biden’s unwillingness to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the company to share its technology with other manufacturers in the US and around the world. Numerous global health leaders have recently pressed President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to scale mRNA vaccine manufacturing by an additional 8 billion doses per year to meet global supply needs--an action Biden has so far been unwilling to take. The activists’ parody video features a clip from January of top White House COVID advisor Anthony Fauci stating the need to produce “billions and billions of doses of vaccines so that the poorest country can have the same access to vaccines as we do in New York or Washington DC.” President Biden ignored this advice, the activists argued, instead leaving vaccine supply decisions to companies like Moderna, whose limited production this year has been entirely claimed through orders from governments in wealthy nations. Today, approximately 76% of COVID vaccine doses have been administered in high- and upper-middle income countries, while just 0.6% of doses have been administered in low-income countries, according to the New York Times COVID vaccination tracker . Approximately 3 billion people have yet to receive a single dose. Rich countries have delivered more booster doses in three months than low-income countries have delivered first doses all year. Moderna’s chairman recently announced the company will not share its secret vaccine recipe with other manufacturers. A recent New York Times investigation found 10 strong candidates in developing countries likely capable of making the Moderna vaccine if they had its recipe. Moderna has yet to deliver a single dose of its vaccine commitments to COVAX, the primary vaccine distribution mechanism for poor countries, a COVAX spokesperson said last week . Thursday’s demonstration is the latest in a series of protests calling on vaccine makers to share technology and for President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel them to do so. Last week activists slept outside the home of White House COVID Czar Jeff Zients demanding action on scaling vaccine manufacturing. On October 21, activists created a mock “Pfizer graveyard” outside the home of CEO Albert Bourla in New York. In September , activists held dual press conferences on global vaccine inequity in front of 12 foot tall piles of prop human bones outside the homes of Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. PRESS CLIPS: Among other media hits, this action was on the front page of the Boston Globe and featured in Democracy Now! (clip starts at 5:20) MORE: www.vaccinesquidgame.com Activists: Moderna Plays Squid Games with Global Vaccine Inequity

People's Pandemic Prevention Plan Memo to Biden Transition Team This memo contains recommendations supported by 65,000 people, 450+ organizations and 141 Members of Congress. It includes provisions to stop COVID-19, build back better, and prevent the pandemics of the future. Some actions require new legislation, but most can be enacted with Executive Authorities already possessed by a President. Download the memo here . Please join R2H Action in urging the Biden Administration to adopt and enact this plan by sending a tweet to Surgeon General Nominee , COVID-19 Task Force Co-Chair and Transition Team Member Dr. Vivek Murthy.

Writer, activist, & AIDS journalist discusss her new book covering how activists won life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment for 26 million people. [WATCH] writer, activist, & AIDS journalist discusses her new book about how activists won life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment for 26 million people Author Emily Bass and Dr. Joia Mukherjee from Partners in Health come together for an exclusive conversation about Emily’s brand new book, “To End A Plague.'' This book uncovers the movement that ignited in 1998 to successfully repeal global policies that put drug company profits over the lives of the poor, and win life-saving treatment for millions of people with AIDS around the world. These revolutionary activists stood up to big pharma and the World Trade Organization, got President George Bush to care about this issue, and launched global solutions to a pandemic that was claiming millions of lives. We have so much to learn and draw upon from this movement as we are mounting our own fight against COVID-19 and pandemics of the future. Our leaders have not learned from the mistakes of the past. We must fight for worldwide access to vaccines, tackle the environmental drivers of new disease outbreaks, and build resilient health systems so we can prevent the pandemics of the future and ultimately save millions of lives. Emily Bass, author "To End A Plague" Emily Bass has spent more than twenty years writing about and working on HIV/AIDS in America and East and Southern Africa. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Esquire, The Lancet, and more. A lifelong social justice activist, Emily has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective. A Manhattan native, Emily lives in Brooklyn with her family. Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH Dr. Mukherjee is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2000, Dr. Mukherjee has served as the chief medical officer of Partners In Health. She also serves on the board of directors for Village Health Works (Burundi) and Muso (Mali) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.