Essential Medicines - hackathon
Event description
Join us for for some or even all (?) of a 12-hour hackathon as part of the ESSENTIAL MEDICINES project. In this event, the second of two for National Science Week 2020, we invite you to contribute to a crowdsourced citizen science project which aims to share information about the essential medicines and ultimately improve access to these medicines.
For National Science Week we'll focus on essential medicines in Australia and work together to try to get information for as many medicines as possible in this 12-hour period.
In our hackathon, anyone and everyone can participate in real research and in real-time!
Members of our team will be online in a Zoom room all day to help with any questions you may have!
THE ESSENTIAL MEDICINES PROJECT
Almost all of us have taken medicines at some point in our lives: to take away pain, to make us feel better or to keep us alive. At the Breaking Good Initiative, we look forward to a time when everyone in the world has access to the medicines that they need. As part of National Science Week, we invite you join the ESSENTIAL MEDICINES project and work together with citizen scientists to explore questions of access to medicines in Australia and beyond.
What are the essential medicines?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines the essential medicines as the medicines which 'satisfy the priority health care needs of the population', meaning that people should have access to these medicines at all times, in adequate amounts and at affordable prices. At the Breaking Good Initiative, we realise that this sadly isn't always the case and we want to work with you to find out more about access to medicines for people all over the world.
Want to join our other event?
Sign up for ESSENTIAL MEDICINES - panel discussion on Monday 18 August from 6pm - 9pm
This event is presented by members of the Breaking Good Initiative from the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney and is supported by Inspiring Australia and the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.