As the COVID-19 epidemic spread across the globe, it exposed great global health inequality. While some patients in North America had to wait several hours for a hospital bed to open and a day or two for a ventilator to become available, others in countries like Liberia endured eight hour trips just to reach the nearest hospital where - with just six ventilators in the country in 2020 - very few could access this lifesaving equipment. Global health researcher Nicole Hassoun makes the important case for rectifying global health inequality and providing access to needed medicines to more humans around the world. Nicole Hassoun is a visiting scholar at Cornell University and Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. From 2006-2012 she was an assistant professor in philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon's Program on International Relations and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Bioethics and Health Law. She has published more than seventy papers in journals like the American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Development Economics, and The Journal of Applied Ethics. Her first book Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations was published with Cambridge University Press in 2012 and her manuscript Global Health Impact: Extending Access on Essential Medicines for the Poor is under contract with Oxford University Press. Professor Hassoun also heads the Global Health Impact project intended to extend access to medicines to the global poor (Global Health Impact). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx