An independent research and policy institute advancing medicines security, pharmaceutical resilience and global health policy.

Securing medicines.
Strengthening nations.

The Medicines Security Institute advances the systems, intelligence and international cooperation required to ensure that essential medicines remain safe, available and resilient in an age of geopolitical disruption and technological change.

Pharmaceutical geopoliticsSupply resilienceAI & intelligenceIndustrial strategyGlobal cooperation
01 — The imperative

Medicines are not merely products.
They are strategic infrastructure.

Shortages, concentrated production, fragile logistics, regulatory divergence, antimicrobial resistance and geopolitical competition have moved medicines security to the centre of national resilience.

MSI is being established to define medicines security as a coherent interdisciplinary field—and to turn rigorous evidence into decision advantage for public institutions, industry and society.

02 — Research architecture

Ten domains.
One security system.

MSI studies medicines security across the full chain of national capability—from discovery and regulation to manufacturing, distribution, workforce, capital and future shocks.

03 — Flagship work

Building the field.
Equipping decisions.

Our initial portfolio establishes the concepts, analytical infrastructure and recurring intelligence products needed to make medicines security measurable and actionable.

04 — Strategic advisory

Independent intelligence for
high-consequence decisions.

MSI translates interdisciplinary research into carefully scoped policy and executive formats. Engagements are designed around institutional need, evidence quality and public-interest safeguards.

Strategic reviews Policy laboratories Executive briefings Research partnerships
05 — Institutional integrity

Credibility must be
constitutional.

MSI is being designed around independence, scholarly rigour, responsible funding and public accountability. Its formal legal status, governing bodies and approved charters will be published as they are established and verified.

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Founding leadership

David Yusuf

Founder & Executive Director

“Medicines security is the capacity of a society to protect the continuous, equitable and trusted availability of the medicines on which life and national stability depend.”
06 — Work with MSI

Help shape a safer,
more resilient medicines future.

We welcome serious dialogue with governments, international institutions, pharmaceutical leaders, research organisations, funders and scholars whose work aligns with MSI’s public-interest mission.

Initiate a confidential conversation Research collaboration · Strategic commissions · Institutional funding · Scholarly appointments