Adriana Benedict

Student Fellow Alumna
2012-2013

Adriana Lee Benedict was a Student Fellow during the 2012-2013 academic year. At the time, she was a second-year student at Harvard Law School interested in promoting access to medicines and biomedical research. She graduated from Harvard College with a concentration in History and Science, a secondary concentration in government, and a certificate in Mind/Brain/Behavior, and subsequently completed a Master of Science in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. Adriana pursued health and human rights work in Kenya, Tanzania, India, Peru and Colombia, and is was the co-chair of the Harvard chapter of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. Adriana’s research interests lie at the intersection of intellectual property and health law, public interest protections in international trade regimes, pharmaceutical research and licensing, and the international right to health. As a Student Fellow, Adriana analyzed regulatory implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy alongside an evaluation of alternative approaches to pharmaceutical R&D, with a special consideration of the impact of international trade and investment agreements on domestic R&D policies.

You can read her blog posts on the Bill of Health here.