Lucy Xiaolu Wang Awarded 2023 IHEA Adam Wagstaff Prize

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 Lucy Xiaolu Wang was recently awarded 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 recognizes the best IHEA congress paper on the economics of healthcare financing or delivery in low- or middle-income countries (LMIC) that is written and presented by a researcher from a LMIC. This prestigious prize is awarded to honor Wagstaff'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 populations.

Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Resource Economics at UMass Amherst, a faculty research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 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. 

This article first appeared on the Department of Resource Economics website.