The WDI Board of Directors has named Jagadeesh Sivadasan, professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, to succeed Wendy Taylor, who recently announced her departure, as interim President. The Board will initiate a search for a permanent WDI president
This article was originally published on NextBillion. By Andrea Bare, Senior Advisor for WDI and Erika Beidelman, Research Associate for WDI In sub-Saharan Africa, the private sector is a common provider of
WDI’s M²GATE program, which brought together more than 500 students from five Michigan university campuses and their peers in Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to find entrepreneurial solutions to social
WDI’s Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC) recently lent support and expertise for a pilot project designed to boost entrepreneurial thinking and problem-solving skills among young refugees and local youth in Jakarta,
WDI’s Education Initiative recently hosted four administrators from the ACLEDA Institute of Business (AIB) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of its consulting work with the school to increase their
The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan is running an exciting new program that pairs University of Michigan undergraduate students with their peers in four North African nations
The WDI Global Impact Speaker Series kicks off for the academic year by exploring the role that good supply chains play in ensuring health products reach their intended recipients in
Across the Global South, the coming decades will likely bring rapid urbanization, changing demographics, increased non-communicable disease burden, and a rising threat of pandemics. All of these factors will place
Outsourcing logistical tasks to the private sector could be a key to drastically improving public health supply chains and increasing access to vital health products in developing countries, according to
In many emerging market countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the government’s ministry of health traditionally defines how public health systems — as well as the supply chains that stock them
WDI’s Healthcare Research Initiative recently successfully completed a project with the government of Mozambique’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and VillageReach to establish better ways to measure performance at all levels
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