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Leena Menghaney

Regional Head, MSF Access Campaign

Expertise in: Public health advocacy, intellectual property and access to healthcare.

Leena Menghaney is a Global Intellectual Property (IP) Advisor and the South-Asia Head for MSF Access Campaign, an International Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. Her work focuses on India's IP policies and their impact on competition in essential pharmaceuticals, pricing of medicines, and public-funded biomedical R&D practices.

Over the last decade she has provided technical support to a number of non-governmental organisations, think tanks, and policy makers from governments on the implementation of health safeguards in the Indian IP system, generic competition and access to medicines for HIV, Hepatitis C and TB. She is a graduate from the Dept of International Relations & Economic Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. She has an LL.B degree from the University of Delhi.