Basu is the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies in the Department of Economics at Cornell while Hassoun is a professor of philosophy at Binghamton University.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully obvious that our global health system is badly broken," they write. "It caters to the demands of profit-driven pharmaceutical companies and the buying power of rich consumers and rich nations, at the expense of much of the world."
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin
An artist's-concept illustration depicting the spacecraft of NASA's Psyche mission near the mission's target, the metal asteroid Psyche. Psyche Mission PI Lindy Elkins-Tanton will speak at Cornell Sept. 11.
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