Daniele Dionisio is a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases, and a reference advisor on medicines for developing countries for the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases. He is the former director of the Pistoia Hospital’s infectious disease division, and serves as a member of the Italian Global Health Watch. His research focuses on equitable access to medicines for communicable diseases in resource-limited countries; the views expressed in his writing are his own.