Senior Legal and Policy Advisor and Policy Co-Coordinator for Access Campaign of Médecins Sans Frontières
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Biography
Dr Yuan Qiong HU is a legal research and advisor, and currently pursuing the PhD study with School of Oriental and Africa Studies in University of London. She attained M. Phil in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from Oslo University in Norway, as well as Master of Law from Shandong University in China. She works as Legal and Policy Advisor for Access Campaign of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with focus on access to medicines and intellectual property, and has also worked as Head of Policy and Research Division of Save the Children China programme, and Environmental Law Attorney of Natural Resources Defense Council with focus on environmental health regulation and access to environmental information in China. She is the Founder and Coordinator of China Access to Medicines Research Group, and has engaged in the patent law revision process in China, with a number of academic papers published on patent law and public health. In addition, she has conducted consultancy works for UNDP, MSF and TWN on the issues related to patent and access to medicines, and for Save the Children on post-2015 development policies concerning health. As a licensed Chinese lawyer, she also worked as a practicing lawyer and a teacher of economic law.
Research Interests
International law, intellectual property law, human rights, environmental law.