Morten Thaysen

Role

Former campaign and policy manager (corporates)

Biography

Morten worked at Global Justice Now until 2017, most recently as a campaigner focusing on corporate power. He is also a co-founder of activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants. He has an MA in Anthropology of Development from SOAS.

Latest posts

Why we can’t trust billionaires with our health

Morten Thaysen

25 October 2017
Pharma

Morten Thaysen introduces our new campaign against the corporate control of medicine.

Are Big Pharma holding patients to ransom to boost their profits?

Morten Thaysen

23 June 2017
Pharma

The NHS has been forced into yet another secretive deal with a big pharmaceutical company to ensure access for cancer patients to the newest medicines. But while access to new drugs is obviously good news for cancer patients, the deal itself paints a bleak picture for the future of our NHS.

Rising drug prices are now more than twice the entire NHS deficit

Morten Thaysen

18 May 2017
Pharma

It’s not just government cuts bleeding the NHS dry, big pharmaceutical companies are leeching more and more money from our health service. Every year the NHS is handing over billions of pounds to big pharmaceutical companies. And that amount is going up by a staggering amount every year.

How many Hepatitis-C deaths does it take to make a billion dollars for a drug company?

Morten Thaysen

10 May 2017
Pharma

Shareholders of American pharmaceutical giant Gilead are meeting in California today to review the work and profits of the company. We’ve done some of the maths for them: Every 79 seconds* someone in the world dies of hepatitis C. And in that same amount of time, Gilead makes $26,068* from selling the cure for hepatitis C.

Is corporate greed killing modern medicine? Animals, drugs and superbugs

Morten Thaysen

09 February 2017
General

Imagine a world where a small cut could kill you or where treatments such as chemotherapy or caesarean sections would be too dangerous to perform. That could be our all-too-near-future if we don't take action.

From Bangladesh to Brazil, how do big companies keep getting away with it?

Morten Thaysen

01 November 2016
General

Last week I went to Geneva to follow the negotiations of a new international treaty to hold corporations acocuntable for their human rights abuses. Here's some of what I learned:

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