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Dana Brown

Dana Brown

Dana Brown is co-director of theory, research, and policy at The Democracy Collaborative and is director of The Next System Project at the Collaborative.

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Publicly-Owned Generic Drugs Are the Answer

Bold policies could have saved America's largest generic drug plant, but it's never too late to start putting communities first.

Dana Brown ·

Workers iron the fabric used for the production of personal protective equipment for COVID-19 coronavirus frontline health workers as commissioned by the government, in Accra, on April 17, 2020. (Photo: Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

All Health Is Public Health

The pandemic has blown up the myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities.

Tinashe Goronga ·

In the struggle to survive this pandemic and to begin to knit together a society that has been increasingly divided in order to serve the needs of the market, we can ill afford to allow health inequities to get even worse. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Primary Health Care Is in Critical Condition. Making Primary Care Public Will Restore Its Health—and Protect Ours

In order to avoid the catastrophic effects of the hollowing out of primary care for our health and that of the economy, the U.S. should take this opportunity to transform the sector by creating a national program for universal public primary care. 

Dana Brown ·

"While we benefit from a highly sophisticated, technically advanced pharmaceutical industry," writes Brown, "that same industry systematically—and often catastrophically—fails to meet the needs of our society, our health, and our economy." (Photo: Floris Van Cauwelaert/flickr/cc)

It's Time to Take on Big Pharma and Reclaim Medicines for Public Health: We Need A Public Option in Pharmaceuticals

Now is the time to support and expand the public production of pharmaceuticals and ensure that medicines are available to all who need them.

Dana Brown ·

Reclaim Public Medicine for Public Health

By taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, we can provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.

Dana Brown ·

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., attend a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center with House and Senate Democrats on a report which they say shows that prescription drug prices have risen under President Trump on May 10, 2018. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Pelosi Plan Not Good Enough: Lower Drug Prices Now Through a Pharmaceutical Public Option

There has never been more momentum or more public outrage on drug pricing and issues of corporate excess in the pharmaceutical sector. The people deserve—and are demanding—much something much better.

Dana Brown ·

At Last, a Good First Step Toward Public Pharmaceuticals

The Warren/Schakowsky bill would create the Office of Drug Manufacturing

Dana Brown ·

"The average cost of cancer drugs today is four times the median household income."(Photo: TheNextSystem)

A Nobel Prize-Winning Cancer Therapy Will Be Unaffordable for Most Americans. Public Pharmaceuticals Can Help Change That.

If biologics really are the future of medicine, we must change the way prescription drugs are priced in the United States, or millions of patients will be left behind

Dana Brown ·

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