Anand Reddi

Anand Reddi
Born Maryland, USA
Institutions University of Colorado
Alma mater University of Michigan
Known for Global Health
PEPFAR
HIV/AIDS
Cancer Research
Skin Cancer
Metastasis
Notable awards Fulbright Scholar

Anand Reddi is a researcher and global health specialist. He is known for his scholarly work on U.S. Global Health Policy including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).[1][2] His basic science research focuses on the molecular mechanisms involved in skin squamous cell cancer tumor initiation and metastasis. In 2005, Reddi was a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa.[3] He served on the board of directors of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from 2009-11.[4]

Education

Anand Reddi is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa assisting the Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS Center at McCord Hospital in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He studied medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

HIV Research

Reddi's research focuses on the provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings.[5][6][7][8][9] His research in collaboration with Sarah Leeper resulted in one of the first studies that demonstrated that pediatric antiretroviral therapy is effective despite the challenges of a resource limited setting.[10]

The Huffington Post

Reddi is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post writing on global health and U.S. domestic healthcare issues.[11] In 2010 Reddi published an opinion-editorial article[12] that brought attention to the flat-lining of global AIDS funds by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.[13] Within six hours, Ezekiel Emanuel, then senior adviser to President Obama for Health Policy, responded directly to Reddi by writing in the Huffington Post: "Contrary to what Dr. Reddi argues, neither I nor the Obama Administration sees an "either-or" trade-off between PEPFAR and other global health priorities such as improving maternal-child health." [14] Reddi rebutted Emanuel's op-ed[15] with a follow-up post that resulted in the restoration of $366 million for antiretroviral scale-up in Uganda.[16][17][18]

Human Capital Contracts

Reddi and Andreas Thyssen, while students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, were the first to propose the use of human capital contracts to fund medical education in the United States in their article in The Huffington Post entitled: "Healthcare Reform: Solving the Medical Student Debt Crisis Through Human Capital Contracts". The Reddi-Thyssen plan resulted in legislation by the American Medical Association in support of human capital contracts. There is also a plan to use human capital contracts in global health. Thyssen and Reddi published a manuscript in AIDS advocating the use of human capital contracts to increase the number of healthcare workers educated in resource limited settings. Human capital contracts for global health mechanism is that an investor, such as a donor nation, charitable foundation, or global health initiative, will cover the entire cost of a student's medical training. In exchange, the student will work for the first 10 years of their medical career in a government or NGO sponsored health clinic in their respective country of medical education. Their medical license will be contingent on this obligatory national service. Additionally, a multilateral “binding” agreement between the African country and destination countries (such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States)-brokered by the investor- could prevent migration during the term period.[19]

Major Awards

Notable Global Health Publications

References

  1. ↑ Obama AIDS plan stumbles over funding. European AIDS Treatment Group. Retrieved 21 Dec 2012
  2. ↑ Highleyman L. Death Rates Decline in African Countries Receiving PEPFAR Funding. Retrieved 21 Dec 2012
  3. ↑ 18 students receive Fulbright award. University of Michigan News Service. Retrieved 21 Dec 2012
  4. ↑ AIDS Healthcare Foundation
  5. ↑ Reddi A et al.Preliminary outcomes of a paediatric highly active antiretroviral therapy cohort from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Pediatr. 2007 Mar 17;7:13. PubMed PMID 1736'7540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1847430.
  6. ↑ Reddi A, Leeper SC. Antiretroviral therapy adherence in children: outcomes from Africa. AIDS. 2008 Apr 23;22(7):906-7. PubMed PMID 18427213.
  7. ↑ Leeper SC, Reddi A. United States global health policy: HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). AIDS. 2010 Sep 10;24(14):2145-9. PubMed PMID 20606571.
  8. ↑ Reddi A, Leeper SC. AIDS funds: benefits. Science. 2010 Oct 8;330(6001):175-6; author reply 177-8. PubMed PMID 20929757.
  9. ↑ Reddi A, Powers MA, Thyssen A. HIV/AIDS and food insecurity: deadly syndemic or an opportunity for healthcare synergism in resource-limited settings of sub-Saharan Africa? AIDS. 2012 Jan 2;26(1):115-7. PubMed PMID 22126815.
  10. ↑ Reddi A et al.Preliminary outcomes of a paediatric highly active antiretroviral therapy cohort from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Pediatr. 2007 Mar 17;7:13. PubMed PMID 1736'7540; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1847430.
  11. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anand-reddi/
  12. ↑ op-ed
  13. ↑ Anand Reddi, United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama. The Huffington Post, July 21, 2010
  14. ↑ Ezekiel Emanuel, The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division, The Huffington Post, July 21, 2010
  15. ↑ Anand Reddi, Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar, The Huffington Post, July 27, 2010
  16. ↑ Anand Reddi, Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar, The Huffington Post, July 27, 2010
  17. ↑ https://www.devex.com/en/news/eric-goosby-bill-clinton-defend-obama-s-aids/68608?lang=ja
  18. ↑ http://www.devex.com/en/news/obama-promises-to-step-up-aids-fight/68627?source=ArticleHomepage_Headline
  19. ↑
    • Reddi A, Thyssen A, Smith D, Lange JH, Akileswaran C. Human capital contracts for global health: a plan to increase the number of physicians in resource limited settings. AIDS. 2012 Sep 24;26(15):1979-80. PMID 22992581
  20. ↑ https://www.cu.edu/jefferson-award
  21. ↑ http://connections.cu.edu/news/achievements-in-academics-service-recognized-with-cus-2013-jefferson-award/
  22. ↑ https://www.cu.edu/content/achievementsacademicsservicerecognizedcu%E2%80%99s2013jeffersonaward
  23. ↑ "Leadership Award Recipients". AMA Foundation. Retrieved 21 Dec 2012
  24. ↑ http://www.medpubinc.com/abfiles/WRM_2012/2012_WRM_Mini_Program.pdf
  25. ↑ http://www.ur.umich.edu/0405/Nov15_04/03.shtml
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