142. Managing healthcare supply chain

Guest Name: Prashant Yadav, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Affiliate Professor at INSEAD and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School,  Language: English, Publication date: Aug 13. 2021

Prashant Yadav is Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Affiliate Professor at INSEAD and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Yadav's research and policy advisory work focuses on health care supply chains in developing countries. He also works on role of new technology in pharmaceutical supply chains, globally.

Before his current role, Yadav was Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the past was Vice President of Healthcare at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and a faculty member at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Before that he was Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics .

Yadav received his undergraduate training in Chemical Engineering, his MBA in Operations and Finance and his PhD in Management Science. Before academia he has worked in pharmaceutical strategy, management consulting and supply chain technology companies.

——— Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

1. What is a core function of a healthcare supply chain and why does SCM take such an important role in this ?
2. What are the challenges in a healthcare supply chain management?
3. How to strengthen healthcare supply chains? What is your recommendation to the business leaders ?
4. Do you think emerging technologies can transform healthcare supply chains? 
5. Some others key takeway.

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