Dana Brown

Dana Brown is a researcher, advocate and policy development professional working at the intersection of health and the economy. She was most recently the Director of Health and Economy at The Democracy Collaborative, a DC-based think-do tank for the democratic economy.

Brown is the author of “Medicine For All: The Case for a Public Option in the Pharmaceutical Industry,” and a leading expert on public pharmaceuticals. Additionally, she has research interests spanning industrial policy, community development for health and wellbeing, and public options for health. Additionally, Brown has a background in human rights and economic justice advocacy across the Americas and her work is deeply informed by Latin American models for community wealth building and economic justice.

Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, NBC, Health Affairs, The Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, and STAT news, among other outlets. She is a bilingual patient-advocate active in the access to medicines and chronic disease movements.

Education:

· MSc, Public Health (concentration in health economics), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

· MA, International Relations, Universidad del Salvador (Argentina)

· BA, Sociology, Cornell University