Rena Conti, TPRI’s Faculty Director will lead the Opportunities for Biotechnology to Improve Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resiliency pilot project (one of six pilot projects) in the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment.The project will systematically assess vulnerabilities in the supply chain of essential medicines and identify opportunities to improve supply chain resiliency. As part of […]
Insurers heavily subsidize the cost of ivermectin prescriptions for COVID, despite the lack of evidence that ivermectin is effective for COVID. In a new paper, published in JAMA, Questrom professor and TPRI co-lead Rena Conti with colleagues Kao-Ping Chua and Nora Becker (both University of Michigan) estimate that U.S. insurers may have wasted $2.5 million on these drugs in the week of August 13, 2021 alone.