NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Prashant Yadav is a senior research fellow at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and director of the Health Care Research Initiative at WDI. He also holds faculty appointments at the Ross School of Business and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. A leading expert on pharmaceutical and health care supply chains in developing countries, his research explores the functioning of health care supply chains using a combination of empirical, analytical and qualitative approaches. He serves as an adviser in the area of pharmaceutical supply chains to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, World Health Organization, UK Department for International Development and many other global health organizations. He was previously a professor of supply chain management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He earned a Ph.D. from the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama, a master’s in business administration from the FORE School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Amanda Glassman is the director of global health policy and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, leading work on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, with a particular interest in vaccination. She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to her current position, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led health economics and financing knowledge products and policy dialogue with member countries, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015 and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexico’s Oportunidades and Colombia’s Familias en Accion. Glassman earned a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University