UAEM is a global movement of university students organizing on their campuses and beyond to ensure that publicly funded medicines and medical innovations are affordable and accessible to the people who need them. UAEM aims to: (1) promote access to medicines and medical innovations where barriers exist primarily by changing norms and practices around academic patenting and licensing, supported by our own independent research, (2) ensure that university medical research meets the needs of people worldwide and actively supports the creation of new needs-based approaches to research and development (R&D) and (3) empower students to respond to the biomedical access and innovation crisis by by advocating for the most promising global biomedical R&D system that works for all.