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.
Dr. James Bernstein is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Eniware, LLC. Trained in thoracic, vascular and transplantation surgery, he has been CEO of health care companies Noxilizer, Informax, Age Wave and General Health, Inc., was a senior researcher in the laboratory of Jonas Salk and served as chairman of President Jimmy Carter’s health policy advisory group.