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Amir Ullah Khan

Visiting Professor

Indian School of Business

Amir Ullah Khan is a development economist and President of the Glocal University in Saharanpur in India.  He studied Electronics Engineering at Osmania University in Hyderabad,  Management at the Institute of Rural Management at Anand and got his PhD from the Jamia Millia Central University in Delhi. He is Fellow at the India Development Foundation,  Adjunct Professor of Law and Economics at the Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and policy advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Blog Posts

Profit Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word In Drug Development

October 2, 2016
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Healthcare

Game-changing inventions taken out of entrepreneurs’ hands; slower innovation in healthcare technology and fewer ground-breaking treatments for patients worldwide. All are possible outcomes of a combative report from the influential United Nations High Level Panel on Access to Medicines, released in New York on Wednesday, which takes aim at the market-based system of drug development. The panel argues that medicines would be cheaper if governments replaced markets in drug development, with a greater coordinating and resource-allocating role for the United Nations.