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Global Health Seminar

‘Indian healthcare: Reforms, results and road ahead’
Sofi Bergkvist, Managing Director, ACCESS Health International

‘Open Secret : Parallel Systems and Human Resource Management in India’s Public Health Service: A View from the Front Lines’
Jerry La Forgia, Lead Health Specialist, World Bank

Chair: Peter Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics; Director, GHP Educational Initiatives, Harvard School of Public Health

Co-sponsored with the India Health Partnership in the Global Health and Population department, Harvard School of Public Health

Sofi Bergkvist is the founding Managing Director of ACCESS Health International. ACCESS Health identifies, analyzes and supports in the design of healthcare service delivery and financing models for high quality and low-cost healthcare. She is also is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Emerging Markets Solutions at the Indian School of Business, where she focuses on health financing and public private partnerships in health.

Jerry La Forgia is a Lead Health Specialist at the World Bank. He devises policies and strategies, conducts policy dialogue with clients and designs and supervises Bank lending operations. He is also leading several policy research tasks in health. Dr. La Forgia specializes in health finance and management.