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Anand Reddi

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Anand Reddi
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BornMaryland, USA
🎓 Alma materUniversity of Michigan
💼 Occupation
Known forGlobal Health
PEPFAR
HIV/AIDS
Cancer Research
Skin Cancer
Metastasis
🏅 AwardsFulbright 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][dead link] He served on the board of directors of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from 2009–11 and is currently on the board of directors of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.[4][not in citation given]

Education[edit]

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[edit]

Reddi's research focuses on the provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings. 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.[5]

Global Health Partnerships[edit]

Reddi was the architect of one of the largest HIV Test & Treat projects with The Vatican in Shinyanga, Tanzania. The project pioneered a decentralized HIV test and treat outreach campaign to find at-risk populations, ultimately testing over 300,000 people and linking to HIV treatment.[6][7]

The Huffington Post[edit]

Reddi is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post writing on global health and U.S. domestic healthcare issues.[8] In 2010 Reddi published an opinion-editorial article that brought attention to the flat-lining of global AIDS funds by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.[9] 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."[10] Reddi rebutted Emanuel's op-ed with a follow-up post that resulted in the restoration of $366 million for antiretroviral scale-up in Uganda.[11][12][13]

AIDS Healthcare Foundation[edit]

In 2011, Reddi resigned from the Board of Directors of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation over a disagreement with AHF's opposition to Pre-exposure Prophylaxis.[14] Reddi criticized AHF's claims against PrEP in an op-ed in The Huffington Post writing: "AHF’s media campaign against FDA review of PrEP is myopic, blinded by its determination to derail a promising new medication."[15]

Human Capital Contracts[edit]

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.[16]

Notable Global Health Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Obama AIDS plan stumbles over funding Archived October 18, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. 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. "Leadership".
  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. PMID 1736'7540; PMC 1847430.
  6. "HIV and Aids in Africa has a new adversary – God and big pharma". The Telegraph. 2018-07-18. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
  7. Ratcliffe, Rebecca (2018-07-22). "Biker nun on a mission to free Tanzania from grip of HIV". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
  8. "Anand Reddi". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2019-12-12. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. Anand Reddi, United States Global Health Policy: HIV/AIDS Treatment Funding At Risk Under President Obama. The Huffington Post, July 21, 2010
  10. Ezekiel Emanuel, The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division, The Huffington Post, July 21, 2010
  11. Anand Reddi, Truth and Reconciliation: President Obama's Global Health Initiative and HIV/AIDS -- Raising the Bar, The Huffington Post, July 27, 2010
  12. July 2010, Ivy Mungcal // 22 (22 July 2010). "Eric Goosby, Bill Clinton Defend Obama's AIDS Funding Decisions". Devex. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  13. July 2010, Ivy Mungcal // 23 (23 July 2010). "Obama Promises to Step Up AIDS Fight". Devex. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  14. "AHF to Gilead: "No Magic Pill" Ads Warn against AIDS Drug as HIV Prevention | Business Wire". www.businesswire.com. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  15. Reddi, Anand (2011-11-02). "Moving Forward on FDA Review of HIV Prevention Drugs". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  16. 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


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