Resource Economics Assistant Professor Lucy Xiaolu Wang wins the 2023 IHEA Adam Wagstaff Prize for her paper "Procurement Institutions and Essential Drug Supply in Low and Middle-Income Countries."
The Adam Wagstaff prize is awarded to the best IHEA congress paper on the economics of healthcare financing or delivery in a low- or middle-income country(ies) that is written and presented by a researcher from a low- or middle-income country (LMIC). This prestigious prize is awarded to honour Adam's lifelong commitment to research that analyzes, promotes and monitors health system efficiency and equity in LMICs and improves the health of the world's poorest.
Lucy is a tenure-track Assistant Professor here at the University of Massachusetts, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, and a Faculty Associate at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Her research focuses on the economics of innovation and digitization in health care markets (national and global), particularly in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industries.