Title: Accelerating global access to health innovations

Biography:

Sjaak Vink has always aimed to create a more equal and fair healthcare system that gives everyone, everywhere the access they need. After a successful career in advertising, he set out to dedicate his time towards social good. He founded TheSocialMedwork in 2014 with the sole mission to help patients all over the world to get access to the newest treatments not approved in their home countries.

Abstract

Healthcare access is a worldwide challenge. Every day, patients from all over the world are denied access to elsewhere approved health innovations for arbitrary reasons. He experienced personal hardships friends who passed away before ever accessing the medicines they needed. He was determined to find a way to undo the injustices of medicines access on a global scale and to accelerate this process to patients all over the world. The creation of TheSocialMedwork is a timely and critical one, with only 11 years separating us from the 2030 health targets of the United Nations. Their aim is to keep pushing for a change in the access to healthcare landscape every single day. They have now safely delivered over 5,500 latest innovative medicines to over 75 countries, years before the official availability in these countries.  Under the Named Patient import basis, TheSocialMedwork is safely and legally delivering medicines to all over the world. TheSocialMedwork’s end goal is global health access for everyone regardless of their financial situation. They are working towards crowd funding, blockchain transparency, pricing algorithms and conditional reimbursement pilots.
In the future they aim to further work together with pharma companies, patient organizations and healthcare professionals to provide patients with the latest and most innovative treatments at their fingertips the second they become approved around the world.