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Dr. Shetty’s innovation in driving down cardiac surgery costs at his Narayana Health Hospital chain has often been compared to Henry Ford’s automobile assembly lines. At 14,000 surgeries last year, Narayana Health has given thousands access to life saving procedures that were previously out of reach. Dr. Shetty’s low-cost model has inspired accessible healthcare around the world.

Discussant: Vikram Patel
Co-founder and Member of Managing Committee, Sangath, Goa, India; Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow; Harvard Medical School; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Public Health Foundation of India; London School- of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Vikram Patel is a professor of global health and social medicine and psychiatrist whose work over the past two decades has focused on reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low resource countries.

Chair: Tarun Khanna
Director of Harvard South Asia Institute;
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School