To make lifesaving drugs more widely available, Priti Krishtel ’02 advocates for patent reform around the world.
![](https://live-health-law-strategy.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-02-at-4.23.28-PM-1-300x234.png)
In 2005, India changed its patent laws to allow pharmaceutical products to be patented—a seismic shift for a country whose previous, less-stringent patent protections had made it a world leader in generic medicines. Sensing disaster for millions of low-income patients, health activists launched a campaign to amend the new legislation to protect access to affordable medications. That was the moment when Priti Radhakrishnan Krishtel ’02, then a senior project officer in the HIV/AIDS unit of India’s Lawyers Collective, found her true calling.